I started to wonder, what language do people program in? I don’t mean which computer language, but what language do you use on your comments and variables?
I am Norwegian, but still I write code in English. It feels more natural to me, and makes stuff so much easier when I need to show my code or ask for help online. But I went to an international school, so I am used to do everything in English anyway, so I guess that is the reason for me doing it in English.
So, what about you?
English.
Woop?
leetspeak.
... make that reverse leetspeak... with a Canadian accent.
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English, as well as for comments even though the code will only be read by other swedes and probably never be released to the outside. I prefer it this way as pretty much any documentation, message boards and so on will be in English so you're only making things worse for yourself by not being fluent in English. I also find that Swedish is a pretty crappy language when it comes to technical stuff, it all sounds so awkward.
The only language I know...... English.
This has been talked about before and everyone draws the conclusion that if you want to program english is basically the language you have to do it in and translated equivalents don't work out well or there just isn't the demand. I program in English.
My computer is awesome.
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Chinese.
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English.
Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart WayOriginally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
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Huh?
FWIW:
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-ques...html#writewellBTW: English, my only language.If you are asking questions in a forum that does not use your native language, you will get a limited amount of slack for spelling and grammar errors — but no extra slack at all for laziness (and yes, we can usually spot that difference). Also, unless you know what your respondent's languages are, write in English. Busy hackers tend to simply flush questions in languages they don't understand, and English is the working language of the Internet. By writing in English you minimize your chances that your question will be discarded unread.
7. It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
40. There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.*
English
source: compsci textbooks, cboard.cprogramming.com, world wide web, common sense
English is that language I program in.
I program in a ROT13 encryption of Mapudungun.
Since I know 5 languages perfectly well, I used to program in German several years ago but as soon as I had to show my code to others or started posting in forums, I switched to English.
My native language is German, but I use English for several reasons.
1) I feel more comfortable talking about computers and everything computer-related in English, since that's the language I learned this stuff in.
2) German has diacritics like ä, and putting non-ASCII characters into source files is usually asking for trouble. Replacing the characters with their ASCII equivalents (ae) is ugly.
3) I hate mixing German comments with English function and variable names.
4) I hate mixing German variable names with English function and type names even more.
All the buzzt!
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"There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code."
- Flon's Law
