To what extent can Java be written in Chinese?
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From: Roedy Green on 23 May 2010 19:35 On Sat, 22 May 2010 15:28:16 -0500, "Peter Olcott" <NoSpam(a)OCR4Screen.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >> You should not use an out-of-date language specification, >> though. Use the current one. > >Got a link to this? The JLS is available in several forms. see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jls.html -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com Beauty is our business. ~ Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (born: 1930-05-11 died: 2002-08-06 at age: 72) Referring to computer science.
From: Peter Olcott on 23 May 2010 22:51 "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:htbpog$bkn$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > 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$1(a)news.albasani.net... >>>>>> Peter Olcott wrote: >>>>>>> There are apparently Chinese equivalents to the >>>>>>> digit >>>>>>> [0-9]. >>>>>>> How does Java handle this for Chinese programmers? >>>>>> >>>>>> By making them use '0' through '9', as Jeff Higgins >>>>>> explained upthread. >>>>> >>>>> I am guessing that this prohibits mainland China >>>>> developers >>>>> from using java, because of their cultural purity >>>>> laws. >>>> >>>> I don't know much about China. >>>> >>>> But what do they do when writing C code for GCC on >>>> their Linux flavor? >>>> >>>> Arne >>>> >>> >>> From what I understand they must write all code in >>> assembly >>> language because no other language is sufficiently >>> adapted >>> to their culture. >>> >>> >> Sounds like a big opportunity for the right language >> developer. > > Writing a preprocessor that allows "Java in Chinese" would > take at most a few weeks. > From what I have been told their digits work like Roman numerals so this might slow things down a bit.
From: Peter Olcott on 23 May 2010 22:54 "Lew" <noone(a)lewscanon.com> wrote in message news:htbql0$veo$1(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. > > Lew wrote: >>> 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? > > Peter Olcott wrote: >>> -- >>> Lew > > Please do not quote sigs. > >> I heard this from two different reliable sources on >> newsgroups. > > Even if I accept your assessment of the reliability of > undisclosed anonymous unconfirmed sources, which I do not, > that does not mean there is no presence of > Chinese-language programming in Java outside of mainland > China. > > However, some brief googling for use of Java in (mainland) > China indicates that there is some, for example in the > Android mobile-phone market. Chinese outsourcing > companies also produce a goodly amount of Java and Java EE > software. > > According to > http://www.codeweblog.com/java-language-overview/ > "... in China, Java is also in full swing" > (Surely the pun was unintentional) > (This does not strike me as more reliable than your > unreliable sources, however having equally unreliable but > contradictory information is informative in its own way.) > > There was at one time a "China Java Users Group", > https://cnjug.dev.java.net/, thoughit does not seem extant > now. > > <http://www.geometricglobal.com/Corporate/Careers/Current+Opportunities/Opportunities+in+China/index.aspx> > has a job opportunity for a Java/J2EE developer in > Shanghai. > > Oh, look! Here's a posting from today (23 May, 2010) for > a Java Software Engineer in Beijing: > <http://jobs.thomsonreuters.com/job/BEIJING,-BEIJING,-CHINA-Java-Software-Engineer-Job/778416/> > > So much for how "reliable" your sources are. > > -- > Lew > Don't quote sigs. This is a second hand paraphrase, so they must have been referring to a prior point in time.
From: Peter Olcott on 23 May 2010 22:57 "Arne Vajh�j" <arne(a)vajhoej.dk> wrote in message news:4bf9a416$0$278$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk... > 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. > > All code in assembly?? > > I think someone has been playing a joke on you! > > Arne I only heard this from one source.
From: Peter Olcott on 23 May 2010 22:58
"Tom Anderson" <twic(a)urchin.earth.li> wrote in message news:alpine.DEB.1.10.1005240001330.10655(a)urchin.earth.li... > On Sun, 23 May 2010, Peter Olcott wrote: > >> I heard this from two different reliable sources on >> newsgroups. > > This is the funniest thing i've heard all day. Reliable > sources on newsgroups! Whatever next? Someone that I have been conversing with for many years was one of these two sources. > > tom > > -- > Pizza: cheap, easy, and portable. Oh, wait, that's me. > Never mind. -- edda |