To what extent can Java be written in Chinese?
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From: Tom Anderson on 23 May 2010 19:07 On Sun, 23 May 2010, Jeff Higgins wrote: > What is the Chinese word for Boolean? Maoean, and it only has the value 'true'. tom -- Pizza: cheap, easy, and portable. Oh, wait, that's me. Never mind. -- edda
From: Arne Vajhøj on 23 May 2010 19:09 On 23-05-2010 13:30, Peter Olcott wrote: > "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? > > I heard this from two different reliable sources on > newsgroups. Two reliable sources claiming that they write code in assembler in China to be pure Chinese !?!? Arne
From: Arne Vajhøj on 23 May 2010 19:10 On 23-05-2010 13:29, 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? > > From what I understand they must write all code in assembly > language because no other language is sufficiently adapted > to their culture. BTW, the problem is exactly the same for an assembler as for a compiler. The only difference is that it is a lot easier to write the backend for an assembler than for a compiler. Arne
From: Arne Vajhøj on 23 May 2010 19:11 On 23-05-2010 19:07, Tom Anderson wrote: > On Sun, 23 May 2010, Jeff Higgins wrote: >> What is the Chinese word for Boolean? > > Maoean, and it only has the value 'true'. Boolean logic must be a lot simpler to learn China! :-) Arne
From: Tom Anderson on 23 May 2010 19:30
On Sun, 23 May 2010, Joshua Cranmer wrote: > I would also like to note that there are Roman numerals that most > programmers in the West would know pretty well, and they do have Unicode > support. I don't know of any programming language that accepts said > numerals as valid numbers. INTERCAL. It *only* does numeric output (but not input) in roman numerals. > Well, non-esoteric programming language... Curses, foiled again! Also, INTERCAL uses an ASCII representation of roman numerals. I'm not sure if the unicode versions use the special glyphs. tom -- Pizza: cheap, easy, and portable. Oh, wait, that's me. Never mind. -- edda |