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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 18:14:06 +1100
Subject: Re: (Still OT) Nationalism, language and monoculture [was Re: Python Worst Practices]
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On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:
>
>> Aye, but that's only an issue if you use more than one. You're most
>> welcome to use "colour" in a project, just be consistent.
>
> Or "Farbe" or "couleur" or "v=C3=A4ri" or...
>
> I *have* seen code like that.

And I've seen a number of proposals to build Python with its
*keywords* localized. While there is a reasonable limit to this (for
instance, I wouldn't expect the disassembly of CPython byte-code to
have "STORE_FAST" translated into another language), there's nothing
wrong with programmers being able to write their code in their
languages.

ChrisA