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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At the end of the day, it boils down to learning the keywords in English. There’s no two ways about it. Now luckily, English is commonly taught at least at a basic level in Asia for a foreign language class in elementary through middle schools. Enough where letters and words can be sounded out.
On top of that, much of coding doesn’t require language skills or understanding in the first place. You don’t need to know what the word for or while or catch actually means in English to know the logic. It helps for sure, but you can certainly skip the meaning of the word and go right to the part where the following clause specifies the number of times to repeat a step y’know?
And lastly, comment blocks can be written in their native language. Ive read through code written by a Korean programmer and the strings and sections were still written in Korean symbols while the logic was English keywords
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