[OT] Re: Bartosz about Chapel

[bcs]

On 11/13/2011 12:07 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
> 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

I've sat near conversations that were clearly in a language I didn't 
know and where the subject at hand was just as easy to identify. You get 
into a technical field and every third word is Geek no matter what the 
other two are.

I want to put a sketch in a move: two professors walk into a room, have 
a 10 minute heated argument about something and *then* notice they don't 
have any natural language in common.