We want to start the 'Programming In D 'in Chinese, do you have any good suggestions?
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Fri Jun 10 17:38:24 PDT 2016
On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 21:32:47 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 20:47:16 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
> wrote:
>> On Friday, 10 June 2016 at 15:04:52 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>>> src/ders/d.cn/编程在D.print.pdf
>>> src/ders/d.cn/编程在D.pdf
>>
>> Is "programming" composed as "edit journey" in chinese?
>>
>> That's kinda philosphical. :-)
>
> Not quite. Many words in Chinese have roughly 10 different
> meanings in different contexts, which all gets very hard to
> keep track of. 编 can mean to edit in the sense of editing a
> newspaper, but it can also mean to weave, to organize, to
> write, or to fabricate. 程 is a noun that can mean rule, like
> "follow the rules", procedure, distance, or journey.
>
> The best way to translate it is of course "to program", but if
> you were to assign meaning to each character the best
> translation would probably be "to write a list of rules [for
> the computer to follow]".
编 可以是 编写 的缩写
编 could be short for 编写(write)
程 可以是 程序 的缩写
程 could be short for 程序(program)
编程 即 编写程序
So 编程 means writing programs aka programming.
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