Re: Re: Flaw in Plans for World Domination

[Philippe Roy <ph_roy yahoo com>]

> reader: I am french, I read, write and speak english fluently and I have
> been working on C code with French comments -> that was EVIL.
> (perhaps the code was simply really bad but...)

Only comments are french, in fact I prefer thinking in my natural language
(enriched thinking, like litterature). How writting a melancolic book
without Portuguese ?

But this point isn't closed and perhaps I'll change.

For the momment, Where I can find a soft for generation translation of C
comments ? (like using getext for the _(bla bla) ). Existing ? Project ?


On 17 Sep 2000, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> Date: 17 Sep 2000 17:25:56 -0700
> To: ph_roy yahoo com
> From: Mathieu Lacage <mathieu eazel com>
> Subject: Re: Flaw in Plans for World Domination
> 
> 
> Philippe Roy <ph_roy yahoo com> writes:
> 
> > Salut, 
> > 
> > > Neanmoins je pense que le code doit etre ecris en anglais, noms de
> > > variable en anglais, etc... 
> > 
> > Et pour les commentaires ? 
> > 
> > Est-ce qu'il existe un soft qui permet l'internationalisation des
> > commentaires des sources ?
> > Un peu commmes les fameux po, mais pour générer les sources dans une
> langue
> > souhaitée.
> 
> smoking crack ?
> 
> The programming langages are based on english: it is thus a major mistake
> to 
> write anything in any other langage than english in a source file.
> It makes the code more confusing and requires a constant mind effort for
> the 
> reader: I am french, I read, write and speak english fluently and I have
> been
> working on C code with French comments -> that was EVIL.
> (perhaps the code was simply really bad but...)
> 
> 
> Mathieu
> 
> > 
> > Philippe 
> > 
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