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On Sat, 6 Dec 2025 12:22:19 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> I think this is the best summary. In the end nearly everybody's first or
> second language is now [some form of] English, and I bet Chinese
> programmers don't type their C code in ideograms.

I've seen C written in languages other than English. To clarify, the C key 
words are the same, if, else, int, #include, and so forth but variable and 
function names, comments and everything else are in Spanish, German, and 
so forth. It's difficult to read.