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- Subject: Re: Must programming languages be English ?
- From: Oliver Schneider <lua@...>
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:17:16 +0000
Responding to the question in the subject.
No: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjölnir_(programming_language)>!
But the programming languages based on English outnumber the others by
far:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Non-English-based_programming_languages>
Worse than the keywords I personally find that languages like C, C++,
Java, JavaScript, C# make the language hard to type on non-English
keyboard layouts. Characters like [] and {} aren't easy to type on many
layouts. It's why digraphs and trigraphs were invented, but they don't
really help readability (and subsequently maintainability).
Certainly one doesn't have to know the language in order to learn a
handful of keywords.
Just my two cents,
// Oliver
