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Re: Ask HN: Can you discuss CS in your native language?

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Post by MrDresden »

We have a publicly accessible dictionary online for CS terms (as well as generalized IT terms) in Icelandic but more often then not, people have no idea what I am talking about if I even attempt to use any of them in any type of communication.

Most if not all Icelandic terms in the CS vocabulary are created from our own langue (through combination of other words or by generating new ones) rather then adopting them from foreign language.

This makes the usage of them rather limited in such a small society, so most people in the CS community aren't even exposed to them.

Page is accessible at https://tos.sky.is

Re: Ask HN: Can you discuss CS in your native language?

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Post by dntbnmpls »

matz1 wrote: post #148
dntbnmpls wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I do not see programming language as English. Sure it may use alphabet and borrow some english word but to me it still hardly english. Assembly language was invented and created in english to make it easier for english speaking developers to program. Nobody wants to program machine code. Then higher level languages were invented to make it easier for english speaking developers to program. Nobody wants to write ass…

>If java, javascript, C#, C, C++, etc aren't english language programming languages, then what language is it? What languages? Its a language in its own right. Its a programming language. Specifically java, javascript, C#, C, C++ language.

You are being deceptive here. The original point is "How do you deal with programming languages' being so based on English?"

Nobody is saying that C or C# is the english language. Of course C and C# are programming languages. You aren't saying anything of importance here. But it is based on the english language using english words to help english speakers write programs.

I already gave you the history of the development of computer programming languages.

"Assembly language was invented and created in english to make it easier for english speaking developers to program. Nobody wants to program machine code.

Then higher level languages were invented to make it easier for english speaking developers to program. Nobody wants to write assembly code."

If you disagree then go read the AT&T or Intel manuals and tell me what language the syntax was written in. Go read the C grammar/syntax or the standard library, what natural language are they written in?

Chinese? Russian? Swedish?

Re: Ask HN: Can you discuss CS in your native language?

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Post by RMPR »

I can, and it feels normal to discuss CS in my native language which is French, which already includes many English words. Imho the downside of not using English lies in the keyboard layout. Many programs are designed to make sense with an English Layout e.g Vim. But writing accents with the US international Layout is a PITA (compared to French Layout), I ended up being a "bilingual" typist.

Re: Ask HN: Can you discuss CS in your native language?

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Post by feiss »

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #58
feiss wrote: post #11

You can do it in Spanish, but there's a lot of vocabulary that either sounds really weird when translated or there's not a translation. So we use English words mixed in the discourse.

Asere, te voy a tirar este PR a QA a ver si funciona, apruevalo for favor.

eso es :D
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