Timeline for Is it a good practice to code in English? [duplicate]
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 7:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ with https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/ | |
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| Jun 3, 2012 at 2:39 | history | edited | Dynamic | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 5 characters in body; edited tags |
| Feb 17, 2012 at 15:57 | history | edited | CommunityBot | insert duplicate link | |
| Feb 17, 2012 at 15:57 | history | closed | ChrisF | exact duplicate | |
| Oct 20, 2011 at 16:34 | comment | added | jk. | yes but from experience following decent code in Italian is better than following terrible code in english | |
| Oct 20, 2011 at 16:05 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/127052719746842624 | ||
| Oct 20, 2011 at 14:47 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | @jk. identifier names are possibly the most important part of documentation. | |
| Oct 20, 2011 at 14:35 | answer | added | Konamiman | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 20, 2011 at 12:50 | answer | added | Carra | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 20, 2011 at 10:03 | comment | added | jk. | one thing I don't think anyone has touched on yet is that this is a second order issue, it is better to have well written, well documented code in a foreign language than poorly written code and documentation in english | |
| Oct 20, 2011 at 9:30 | comment | added | Erica Xu | I heard of programming language written in Chinese and mere spaces! But I guess English is just the most efficient language especially when it comes to collaboration. | |
| Oct 20, 2011 at 8:05 | comment | added | mouviciel | If your question is about what do other developers do, this is a duplicate, as @Caleb already mentioned. If your question is whether you should code in english or in spanish, the answer should be written in your requirements document. | |
| Oct 20, 2011 at 7:55 | answer | added | cl-r | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 17, 2011 at 19:36 | comment | added | Loki Astari | My first though is that they speak/write Portuguese in Brazil. Maybe that's not a problem I am not sure. | |
| Oct 17, 2011 at 19:14 | answer | added | deprecated | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 17, 2011 at 18:55 | comment | added | jim | @JonRaynor What's up? | |
| Oct 17, 2011 at 18:52 | answer | added | Daniel Lee | timeline score: 7 | |
| Oct 17, 2011 at 17:19 | comment | added | Niklas Rosencrantz | One exception really has to be project name. If your project name is in Latin you could have a variable with same name as your project. It's fairly common that project names are in Greek, Latin, Spanish or other so if the word is more like a brand then I say it shan't translate everything to English just for the sake of the decision. For example I could have a variable called favela even though it is Brazilian Portuguese and means ghetto - so a certain amount of ad hoc reasoning could be preferred so we don't start translating company names or likewise. | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 21:26 | answer | added | Andreas Bonini | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 21:10 | answer | added | Paul T Davies | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 20:34 | comment | added | JBRWilkinson | Do you have variable/function/class names that use accented characters? | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 19:10 | comment | added | Jonas | Just make sure error messages that might be of use to users are in Spanish. | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 18:04 | vote | accept | Juan Jimenez | ||
| Oct 12, 2011 at 18:04 | vote | accept | Juan Jimenez | ||
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| Oct 12, 2011 at 17:51 | comment | added | hiena | Most programmers in Latin America understand English. | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 17:13 | answer | added | jsrc1115 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 16:57 | comment | added | Sardathrion - against SE abuse | What about in-code comments? | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 16:55 | answer | added | johannes | timeline score: 21 | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 16:45 | comment | added | Jon Raynor | Consider it to be a form of obfuscation for non-english speakers. | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 16:44 | comment | added | Juan Jimenez | what about table names on data base? | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 16:40 | answer | added | Luke Graham | timeline score: 22 | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 16:39 | comment | added | Coder | I would say it's mandatory. You never know, maybe someone will outsource the code to some other country. | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 16:38 | answer | added | deadalnix | timeline score: 56 | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 16:37 | history | edited | ChrisF | CC BY-SA 3.0 | corrected capitalisation |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 16:34 | history | edited | FrustratedWithFormsDesigner | edited tags | |
| Oct 12, 2011 at 16:30 | history | asked | Juan Jimenez | CC BY-SA 3.0 |