To what extent can Java be written in Chinese?
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From: Jim Janney on 25 May 2010 15:33 "Peter Olcott" <NoSpam(a)OCR4Screen.com> writes: > "Lew" <noone(a)lewscanon.com> wrote in message > news:hta6lq$jh8$1(a)news.albasani.net... >> Peter Olcott wrote: >>> There are apparently Chinese equivalents to the digit >>> [0-9]. >>> How does Java handle this for Chinese programmers? >> >> By making them use '0' through '9', as Jeff Higgins >> explained upthread. >> >> -- >> Lew > > Isn't this a little ethnocentristic? Depends on your point of view. They're Arabic numerals, thus arguably not even Western. -- Jim Janney
From: Joshua Cranmer on 25 May 2010 18:06 On 05/25/2010 07:16 AM, Thomas Pornin wrote: > Personally, as a French (and French-speaking) programmer, I choose > English-based identifiers and I write comments in English. This is > because the language keywords, and all the standard library, are > English-based. Mixing that with French would scorch my eyes. I recall seeing one program written by a French programmer and another written by one who was either Spanish or Portuguese. The French programmer mostly stuck with English, although I recall the odd French word bandied about, but the other one used the other language for a large number (but not all!) of the method names, variable names, and comments. Let's just say, I'm grateful that you chose the option you did. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth
From: Arne Vajhøj on 25 May 2010 18:19 On 24-05-2010 22:35, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > Peter Olcott wrote: > ... >> I just want to know if it makes any sense to convert local punctuation >> and local digits to ASCII for the computer language that I am >> designing. That is the sole purpose of this thread. I used Chinese >> Java to provide a completely concrete example. > ... > > I don't have any experience with Chinese Java, but I have read a couple > of French Fortran programs, and France really does have language purity > laws. The identifiers and comments were all in French, but the > punctuation in the actual code was normal Fortran punctuation. In > particular, real constants were written as e.g. "3.14", not "3,14" as > one would expect in French. That is the standard IT way. I even get pissed if parsing and formatting methods default to locale specific conventions and not programming convention (=EN US). Arne
From: Arne Vajhøj on 25 May 2010 18:21 On 24-05-2010 22:59, Mike Schilling wrote: > Patricia Shanahan wrote: >> Peter Olcott wrote: >> ... >>> I just want to know if it makes any sense to convert local >>> punctuation and local digits to ASCII for the computer >>> language that I am designing. That is the sole purpose of >>> this thread. I used Chinese Java to provide a completely >>> concrete example. >> ... >> >> I don't have any experience with Chinese Java, but I have read a >> couple of French Fortran programs, and France really does have >> language purity laws. The identifiers and comments were all in >> French, but the punctuation in the actual code was normal Fortran >> punctuation. In particular, real constants were written as e.g. >> "3.14", not "3,14" as one would expect in French. > > Using the French decimal point would necessitate other changes, since > otherwise > > CALL FOO(3,14) > > would be ambiguous in whether it calls FOO with two integers or a real, of > course. The problem is known from Excel where in EN US uses '.' for decimal point and ',' for argument separator, but some internationalized versions use ',' for deimal point and ';' for argument separator. Not an example to follow!! Arne
From: Arne Vajhøj on 25 May 2010 18:22
On 25-05-2010 01:35, Peter Olcott wrote: > "Lew"<noone(a)lewscanon.com> wrote in message > news:htfial$g79$1(a)news.albasani.net... >> Peter Olcott wrote: >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Lew >> >> Please don't quote sigs. >> >> -- >> Lew >> Please don't quote sigs. > > I make it a rule to never follow rules, I only follow the > reasons behind the rules if there are any. Because of this > what you said makes no sense. I might as well ask you to > ALWAYS make sure to quote sigs. What difference does it > make? Quoting sigs waste bandwidth and make the posts harder to read for people. Arne |