Questions tagged [spoken-languages]
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Why don't compilers support non-English keywords? [closed]
When you read C, C#, Java, Python, PHP and many other programming languages all the syntax is written in English. Simple code like this if (X+1 > 4) { } while (A == true) { } Is written in ...
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Would learning any natural language in particular further your programming career? [closed]
It seems apparent that English is the dominant international language for programming based on previous P.SE questions (though a highly upvoted comment correctly points out that asking a question like ...
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HTML/CSS in Other Spoken languages? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate: Do people in non-English-speaking countries code in English? Do developers who don't natively speak English still code using english property and tag names? Like, would a ...
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Scrum for team split between two spoken languages
I have a team that without a single common language among all of the team members. The team is split across two locations (though the geography isn't the main issue). All team members in each location ...
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Which spoken languages should I try to support in my android application? [closed]
I'm developing a small android app, which is regional independent. I'm curious, which language should I try to support? At the moment I'm only sure to support the languages I speak fluently. This is ...
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Insert grammatical mistakes in a correct sentence
I'd like to insert grammatical mistakes (not typo) in a correct sentence, to make a small game. For instance: My name is John -> My name are John He leaves the room -> He leave the room I only ...
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Is it a good practice to code in English? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate: Do people in non-English-speaking countries code in English? I have a development comming that is intended to be sold across Latin America (Spanish speakers), but I've heard ...
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Why do websites have to ask language and country when the browser can tell them that?
So, why do websites have to ask (spoken) language and country when the browser can tell them that? Edit: Specifically, I mean why not use the accept-language section in the http header, set by the ...
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Where can I find translations of OSI-approved licenses? [closed]
I'm looking for a site/page somewhere that has translations of common open-source licenses. In particular, I'm looking for translations for the MIT license. Is there a site or resource somewhere that ...
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How can we integrate use of a foreign language into an internship? [closed]
We have a few interns here that have orders from college to integrate speaking, reading, and writing French into their internship. All of them are working on developing their own web application, and ...
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Has there been research into programming linguistics?
Programming languages are formal languages, but unlike many formalisms, they also have certain inherent meaning defined by their operational semantics, or, in the case of markup languages, ...
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Dealing with bilingual(spoken language) code?
So I've got to work with this set of code here for a re-write, and it's written by people who speak both English and French. Here's a snapshot of what I'm talking about (only, about 4000 lines of ...
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How should I name the language data files?
Recently I decided to add some translations to my program. I wonder how I should name the language files? in the culture's name of the language (example: english = en, french = fr, italian = it, etc......
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What is programming like in the Japanese language? [closed]
Is the code written in Japanese? Are filenames in English? What about like a C preprocessor? Is that still in English? Are comments in Japanese? Examples would be nice too.
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Programming and Ubiquitous Language (DDD) in a non-English domain
I know there are some questions already here that are closely related to this subject but none of them take Ubiquitous Language as the starting point so I think that justifies this question. For ...
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