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by gizzlon 4256 days ago
I agree with you that projects using languages I don't understand is a major turn-off, I think they understand that as well, and live with the trade-off. As someone else said, many people are not comfortable using English (which is just a nice way of saying their English sucks).

I wrote a small script [1] to translate this really cool Go blog [2] from Chinese using a free Bing API.

1: https://github.com/oyvindsk/Tore-the-translator 2: https://github.com/fuxiaohei/GoBlog
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the_solution 4256 days ago
They have the freedom to do make that decision just as I have the freedom to voice my disagreement.

Ok, maybe their english sucks. Do you ever get better at something by not practising?

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zorbo 4256 days ago
Or you could take the opportunity to learn Chinese. After all, are you ever going to learn something if you insist the rest of the world does it your way.

I have to say, from this and your other comments ("Do not use any language other than english in public code"), you come off as extremely arrogant.

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the_solution 4256 days ago
Are you intentionally misrepresenting what I said in the other comments? Quote: 'It's not about "having it my way"' (Explanation follows).

Also, is it not allowed to make statements anymore? Yes, it is my opinion that it is very bad practice to use anything but the de-facto standard intercomunication language for CS in programming code. Do I have to pre-/post-fix everyhing with humble phrases and opinion disclaimers? When was that established?

Learn Chinese?

And I suppose everyone else should learn chinese too? Just because a bunch of programmers is lazy everyone else needs to change?

And you call me arrogant.

Don't be so touchy.

I make bold statements because I have a strong opinion on this based on experience and good reasons. That is not arrogance. Insert redundand humble phrases here (IRHPH). Tell me about this again after you debugged an old program written by the friendly (insert nationality) colleague who left the company, and wrote all his code in (native tongue) under time constrains.

The question of who should learn which language should be answered in this way: The correct way is so that it takes the least learning effort overall (added up) while enabling maximum exchange of knowledge and ideas. IRHPH. At the moment that means english is the way to go. IRHPH.

And just to make this clear: I'm not demanding anyone do anything in any way. I'm just pointing out that it is a bad idea. IRHPH

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