To what extent can Java be written in Chinese?
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From: Lew on 23 May 2010 10:32 Peter Olcott wrote: >>> There are apparently Chinese equivalents to the digit >>> [0-9]. >>> How does Java handle this for Chinese programmers? Lew wrote: >> By making them use '0' through '9', as Jeff Higgins >> explained upthread. Peter Olcott wrote: >> -- >> Lew Don't quote sigs. > Isn't this a little ethnocentristic? No. -- Lew
From: Peter Olcott on 23 May 2010 13:29 "Arne Vajh�j" <arne(a)vajhoej.dk> wrote in message news:4bf936f1$0$285$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk... > On 23-05-2010 09:58, Peter Olcott wrote: >> "Lew"<noone(a)lewscanon.com> wrote in message >> news:hta6lq$jh8$1(a)news.albasani.net... >>> Peter Olcott wrote: >>>> There are apparently Chinese equivalents to the digit >>>> [0-9]. >>>> How does Java handle this for Chinese programmers? >>> >>> By making them use '0' through '9', as Jeff Higgins >>> explained upthread. >> >> I am guessing that this prohibits mainland China >> developers >> from using java, because of their cultural purity laws. > > I don't know much about China. > > But what do they do when writing C code for GCC on > their Linux flavor? > > Arne > From what I understand they must write all code in assembly language because no other language is sufficiently adapted to their culture.
From: Peter Olcott on 23 May 2010 13:30 "Lew" <noone(a)lewscanon.com> wrote in message news:htbe56$c5r$3(a)news.albasani.net... > Peter Olcott wrote: >> In China because of their cultural purity laws they would >> miss out on being able to use Java for development at >> all. > > Mainland China. They might not be so restrictive in > Taiwan. > > Are you quite sure that what you say is even true in > mainland China? Care to cite some references to > substantiate that claim? > > -- > Lew I heard this from two different reliable sources on newsgroups.
From: Jeff Higgins on 23 May 2010 13:45 On 5/23/2010 1:29 PM, Peter Olcott wrote: > "Arne Vajh�j"<arne(a)vajhoej.dk> wrote in message > news:4bf936f1$0$285$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk... >> On 23-05-2010 09:58, Peter Olcott wrote: >>> "Lew"<noone(a)lewscanon.com> wrote in message >>> news:hta6lq$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. >>> >>> I am guessing that this prohibits mainland China >>> developers >>> from using java, because of their cultural purity laws. >> >> I don't know much about China. >> >> But what do they do when writing C code for GCC on >> their Linux flavor? >> >> Arne >> > > From what I understand they must write all code in assembly > language because no other language is sufficiently adapted > to their culture. > > Sounds like a big opportunity for the right language developer.
From: Mike Schilling on 23 May 2010 13:47
Jeff Higgins wrote: > On 5/23/2010 1:29 PM, Peter Olcott wrote: >> "Arne Vajh�j"<arne(a)vajhoej.dk> wrote in message >> news:4bf936f1$0$285$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk... >>> On 23-05-2010 09:58, Peter Olcott wrote: >>>> "Lew"<noone(a)lewscanon.com> wrote in message >>>> news:hta6lq$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. >>>> >>>> I am guessing that this prohibits mainland China >>>> developers >>>> from using java, because of their cultural purity laws. >>> >>> I don't know much about China. >>> >>> But what do they do when writing C code for GCC on >>> their Linux flavor? >>> >>> Arne >>> >> >> From what I understand they must write all code in assembly >> language because no other language is sufficiently adapted >> to their culture. >> >> > Sounds like a big opportunity for the right language developer. Writing a preprocessor that allows "Java in Chinese" would take at most a few weeks. |