X-Received: by 10.66.86.129 with SMTP id p1mr1942763paz.24.1357761569589; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:59:29 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!f6no10055484pbd.1!news-out.google.com!s9ni98687pbb.0!nntp.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:59:28 -0600 Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:59:29 -0800 From: Patricia Shanahan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: java software naming question References: <396e3ff0-2a44-4d8b-917c-3b9205a567a6@googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.230.205.210 X-Trace: sv3-y1eZ5u3FW5lWLpk6HLo6zYaqbywytSeeMCXJXLTAYTiIM7/Kcoj1i1MwIdsdVr8VgUXlbvBwWI23Ja5!y4qotidnZp3vL2lEYH1Vyq/O4nvOTjwB8HKhFdfbvOqyebFXZcb8Lsit3diAR2jKz77AK8p34ETm!ASIaHjVYw2sskt0uB6XJhN3k0FU2RSzXiFcbODkKY4x9c6k= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2414 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21267 On 1/9/2013 11:18 AM, Roedy Green wrote: ... > I am also interested in how you might use teams of computer > programmers who do not all speak English. I envisage some SCIDs that > greatly tighten up the ability of programmers to track what others are > doing and to decouple how the program is displayed from how it is > stored. > In practice, I've met many programmers who could discuss any programming issue in English, without being fluent in English in general. During one meeting, in Zurich, we went out to a restaurant for lunch. The people who had no trouble discussing interrupts and terminals could not help me work out what the menu said. They did not know the English terms for foods or cooking methods. On the other hand, the waiter could explain the menu in English. I suspect the world contains many people who know the subset of English, especially technical terminology, that applies to their own field. Patricia