[OT] Re: Bartosz about Chapel

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 12.11.2011 18:20, schrieb bcs:
> On 11/11/2011 12:26 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>> Am 11.11.2011 19:54, schrieb Ali Çehreli:
>>> On 11/11/2011 09:56 AM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>>>
>>> > (Also none-ascii chars in code outside of strings is bad IMHO)
>>>
>>> In English code, right? :)
>>>
>>> There are real problems of using the ASCII relatives of Turkish letters:
>>>
>>> döndür: return
>>> dondur: freeze
>>> dön: turn
>>> don: underwear
>>> sık: squeeze
>>> sik: (a four-letter word)
>>>
>>> Thousands more... :)
>>>
>>> Ali
>>>
>>
>> I (almost?) always use english variables, classnames etc, even though
>> it's not my native tongue.
>> And if I, for whatever reason, use non-english names I still stick to
>> ascii.
>> I just image that someone else will want to understand or modify my code
>> and he may not speak my language
>
> Why do you assume they will know English?
>

It's taught in schools all over the world and almost anybody who 
programs can at least read english (you're screwed otherwise because 
documentation of languages and (standard-) libs, and the classes etc in 
libraries themselves are usually in english).

Cheers,
- Daniel