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Re: Why emacs have not native language menu
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Pascal Bourguignon |
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Re: Why emacs have not native language menu |
Date: |
Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:31:27 +0200 |
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Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> writes:
> On 25 juil. 07, at 19:51, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
>
>> Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> writes:
>>> ps: did it ever occur to you that some massively succesful
>>> programming languages originated from non-English cultural/linguistic
>>> environments ?
>
>> A lot of programming languages originated from non-English cultural or
>> linguistic environment (eg, Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon, etc), but they
>> ALL were designed in English.
>
> Which is totally unrelated to the discussion. When Matsumoto wrote
> his first books on ruby, even if the reserved words were in "English"
> the explanations had to be translated from Japanese. To be
> "localized" to English.
Well, AFAIK, the firsts versions of the Pascal Report and possibly the
following language were written in Swiss German and later translated
to English, for publication.
What do you think would be the status of ruby in the world today if
this first ruby book hadn't been translated to English? Wouldn't it
have been easier to directly write it in English?
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
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