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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as a software developer in germany i can say there is a bit of debate. The programing language itself is in english. however the variable names and comments are debated. Some developer (me included) say that because eveything else in in english, we should continue this and make all our names and comments in english. Other people say that it is easier for germans to understand if its all in german. that leads to some companies doing it in german and some in english. sometimes you can even see both in one codebase.
edit: i just looked it up. there is accualy a programming language in german. its called DDP (Die Deutsche Programmiersprache) wich translates to “the german programming language”
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