| > People barely speak English already so if you remove the need for some English keyword to do development, you can be sure you are heading toward a generation that doesn't know how and doesn't care about speaking English. So be it if it means more programmers in france, china, russia, etc. > No because they are built from the ground up to use English. Yeah, and you can do the same in other major languages. It should be easier since we already did most of the work for you. > So if I understand your idea, by creating languages that are based on each local language we would not be able to share source code without having to translate it into our own language? Yes. You'd be able to share the libraries and executables, but not the source unless you know the language. > So I need to learn Chinese. And English. And Russian. No. The chinese, english, russian, etc has to be translated into french. Have you ever read a book by a non-french author? > Automatic translation is not really that good for books and websites from the experience I have. That's my point. You are a worse programmer than you could be because you are coding in a foreign language. If you coded in french, you'd be a better programmer. After all, programming is an art, like literature. > I agree with you that if we had a programming language in French of the quality of Java or C or Python it would allow some individuals You completely missed my point. You could convert Java, C, Python, etc into french or any other language. It's simply updating the grammar where you could do a simple 1 to 1 conversion of the keywords. It's so simple that an ambitious and competent person could do it over a weekend. The hard part is translating the libraries and the executables - the actual code in the wild. But it's doable if given enough resources. Like you said, people translate documents in many languages already. Why not take the extra step and translate the source as well? |