Especially in Mandarin & Japanese speaking countries – for example: how does variable & function naming work if the language primarily consists of symbolic characters?
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Usually you have to need some basic English skills to understand computer language concepts and syntax. And while it would be easier to an English native to guess what the function ‘concate’ does, but what you really need is to know how exactly this function works, what inputs you have to give it, what results you’d receive et cetera.
So, it’s not a big deal.
Regarding comments, some people are writing their comments in their native language. I believe, it’s a bad practice, because you can’t really know who would work with your code after you.
And, funny thing, there are several computer languages based not on English, but on my native language. So, all the classes, all the functions named in my language, and this language doesn’t even use Latin alphabet. Maybe, it’s a question of habit, but I personally had a hard time with that approach. All of this seemed to me too verbose and extremely unnatural, so when given a choice I’d prefer English-based code anyway.
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