If you’re from a non English speaking country, do you first have to learn English if you want to get into programming?

  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Not sure about today but VBA (in the MS Office products) actually had translated keywords because Microsoft is batshit insane.

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      9 months ago

      Real world scenario happening to me:

      Reinstall my win os to use French because a) back in the day you couldn’t just change language, b) scrips were VB written french (so si instead of if etc).

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      9 months ago

      Cucumber/Gherkin also has translated keywords (even Emoji… smh) but there it actually makes sense because you actually write it in natural language.

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        9 months ago

        I am sceptical of natural language programming in general but I am also fairly certain that you would have to do a lot more than just translate the keywords to get something that looks natural in another language. Word order is different in many languages for one.