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by TazeTSchnitzel 5045 days ago
I agree that it's a basic problem. There's a language using Japanese keywords out there: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind and a few others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_l...

Still, a language monoculture is more convenient for most programmers. As an English-speaking programmer, I'd hate to have to maintain, say, Chinese code.