| I agree that language is not standardized and should never be. I see English in programming as the somewhat lowest common denominator. At least in the "western world". From all the 4 languages I learned and some more I messed around with, English was the easiest to get to a basic level. On Par with Spanish. This is highly biased of course. Although my mother tongue is German(Swiss), I usually avoid documentations, tutorials, etc in German for multiple reasons. - The mix of english terminology, germanized terminology and normal German makes it hard to read. - They are mostly just translated and not rewritten, which sometimes leads to some strange formulations. - I'm forgiving/ignorant for grammatical errors in foreign languages - They tend to be outdated. I agree that documentation should only use as few text as possible and as much necessary. Editable and runnable examples are the best way in my opinion. Also, no matter what language, documentation should be written using simple words, short sentences and not try to win a pulitzer prize. I don't mind documentation in English. What really pisses me off is, when I have to work with software where the developers/designers clearly didn't account for things like letters with stuff on it (éàüöøñ…), variable sentence lengths, date formats, etc. |