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by d3ckard 2059 days ago
It’s such a French thing to write software supporting French and English while making all the examples in README French...
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programLyrique 2059 days ago
There is an example of the US tax code on the landing page of website (https://catala-lang.org/en/) so they actually seem to have also tried the language on English-written law!
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firebacon 2059 days ago
Maybe that was done to prove the point that the language, unlike most other programming languages, does not have any built-in English assumptions?

Also I think the examples are actually quite comprehensible even to non french speakers.

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d3ckard 2059 days ago
They aren’t. Also, it doesn’t seem to make sense to use only French examples in midst of English written text. I don’t think its a major problem of course and main project page contains English examples, I just found that funny.
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