Re: Flaw in Plans for World Domination

[Philippe Roy <ph_roy yahoo com>]

> > (enriched thinking, like litterature). How writting a melancolic book
without Portuguese ?

> This is not literature. This is code.

But it's thinking, it's the same work with differents goals, others
technics, ... .


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

> You can mark string to be translated with N_()
> which will make them be aded to the list of strings to be translated.
> Then, you have to write your own script which generates translated code
> from original one and .po files. by calling gettext on them (a day hack)

gettext is *very* good for software internalization. Writting with English
and distribution 
with translations. It's one language to several languages.
But when you want several many languages (writer language) to many
languages (reader language) ? 
And if I want a generation with many comments: like "
/* en : create main window */
/* fr : création de le fenêtre principale */
void creat_win (void)
{
..
}
"

> This sounds like a huge waste of time for a lot of pain maintaining both
> the coments and the translations in sync. It is already difficult for
> simple strings so I can barely imagine it for full paragraphs/sentences.

I don't think so. You said "This is not literature. This is code.".
In fact, in my code, the comments vocabulary is very poor (speed) but (I
hope) clear.
So, we can use automatic translation.

If think for the hacker beginner (like me), a code with natural language is
not simply confortable.




On 18 Sep 2000, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> Date: 18 Sep 2000 02:30:01 -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:
> 
> > > 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
> 
> Comments should NOT be in french. This is my point.
> 
> > (enriched thinking, like litterature). How writting a melancolic book
> > without Portuguese ?
> 
> This is not literature. This is code.
> 
> > 
> > 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
> ?
> > 
> 
> You can mark string to be translated with N_()
> which will make them be aded to the list of strings to be translated.
> Then, you have to write your own script which generates translated code
> from original one and .po files. by calling gettext on them (a day hack)
> 
> This sounds like a huge waste of time for a lot of pain maintaining both
> the coments and the translations in sync. It is already difficult for
> simple
> strings so I can barely imagine it for full paragraphs/sentences.
> 
> 
> regards,
> Mathieu
> 
> > 
> > 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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