Programming around the world

szboardstretcher · 09-14-2013, 06:50 PM

Greetings,.

I was just wondering if everyone in the world programmed their particular flavor (C, C++, Java, PHP, etc...) in English?

I've personally never seen code in another language, although I'm completely aware that there are keyboard layouts for many languages throughout the world.

Would I be right in assuming that everyone codes in english? Thought it might be an interesting question to ask.

gnashley · 09-15-2013, 02:36 AM

Do you mean using English when naming variables and writing comments? I've seen lots of code done using French, Japanese or Spanish for comments and variable naming. Of course the code itself is C, C++ or whatever.

H_TeXMeX_H · 09-15-2013, 10:22 AM

I've seen variable names and comments in German, French, and Russian. Special characters were only used in comments or not at all.

DavidMcCann · 09-15-2013, 11:40 AM

It can make for problems, seeing that many programming languages need symbols like []{} which are largely restricted to English-language keyboards.

273 · 09-15-2013, 11:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

It can make for problems, seeing that many programming languages need symbols like []{} which are largely restricted to English-language keyboards.

You mean "Latin" keyboards, surely? Apologies for being pedantic.
Edit: I see I am wrong -- I obviously didn't pay enough attention when using AZERTY keyboards so I didn't notice that it's just QWERTY keyboards which have easy access to various kinds of braces/brackets.

pan64 · 09-15-2013, 12:06 PM

I think the macro language of MS excel/word is language dependent, so the keywords will be replaced if you change the settings. Therefore you can write the program in hungarian, but I do not think it is useful at all.

szboardstretcher · 09-16-2013, 08:35 AM

Anyone have a link to some code written in German, French, Arabic.. etc?

H_TeXMeX_H · 09-16-2013, 09:23 AM

Here's the Russian one:
http://www.viewizard.com/astromenace/index_linux.php

main.cpp

Code:

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// настройки
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// настройки игры
GameSetup Setup;
// возможности железа, получаем через рендерер
eDevCaps *CAPS=0;

and there are lots of comments.

DavidMcCann · 09-16-2013, 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 273

... it's just QWERTY keyboards which have easy access to various kinds of braces/brackets.

No, it really is just English (excluding Canada) and American Spanish and Portuguese, although you can sometimes get the brackets with AltGr.

Quote:

Originally Posted by szboardstretcher

Anyone have a link to some code written in German, French, Arabic.. etc?

Code:

1130 DEF PROC pfeil (wer$,sev)
1140   IF weiter AND dr<3 THEN fenst wer$,sev
1150   abst=(INT((sev/2)+1)*7)-4
1160   AT #3,0,abst : PRINT #3,CHR$(191)
1170   hoch=-4+sev*7
1180   REP suche
1190     a$=INKEY$(-1)
1200     IF a$=CHR$(192) THEN abst=abst-7:bim 3
----
1380     IF weiter AND a$=CHR$(10) THEN bonus wer$(zal),werk$,zal : IF weg THEN steinweg wer$,zal : CLS #3 : RET : ELSE CLS #3 : RET
1390     CLS #3
1400     AT #3,0,abst:PRINT #3,CHR$(191)
1410   END REP suche
1420 END DEF pfeil

No prizes for guessing the language (and I don't mean German), although I bet you can't!

szboardstretcher · 09-17-2013, 02:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

Here's the Russian one:
http://www.viewizard.com/astromenace/index_linux.php

main.cpp

Code:

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// настройки
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// настройки игры
GameSetup Setup;
// возможности железа, получаем через рендерер
eDevCaps *CAPS=0;

and there are lots of comments.

That is very interesting to see.

English does seem like the common programming language from what I've seen now. Odd thinking how that works out in other countries -- if you want to be a programmer in Russia, you have to learn English, Or at least a subset of it.

DavidMcCann · 09-18-2013, 11:26 AM

In most countries, learning English is part of getting a higher education, just as learning Latin was up to the 18th century. Remember how Linus wrote his thesis in English, in a compromise with his professor.: Swedish was Linus's first language, Finnish his second, but the professor only spoke Finnish.