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Do people in non-English-speaking countries code in English?

I've heard it said (by coworkers) that everyone "codes in English" regardless of where they're from. I find that difficult to believe, however I wouldn't be surprised if, for most programming languages, the supported character set is relatively…
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Programming and Ubiquitous Language (DDD) in a non-English domain

I know there are some questions already here that are closely related to this subject but none of them take Ubiquitous Language as the starting point so I think that justifies this question. For those who don't know: Ubiquitous Language is the…
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Would learning any natural language in particular further your programming career?

It seems apparent that English is the dominant international language for programming based on previous P.SE questions (though a highly upvoted comment correctly points out that asking a question like that on a predominantly English site will skew…
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Is it a good practice to code in English?

Possible Duplicate: Do people in non-English-speaking countries code in English? I have a development comming that is intended to be sold across Latin America (Spanish speakers), but I've heard from some partners that is a good practice to always…
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What is programming like in the Japanese language?

Is the code written in Japanese? Are filenames in English? What about like a C preprocessor? Is that still in English? Are comments in Japanese? Examples would be nice too.
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Has there been research into programming linguistics?

Programming languages are formal languages, but unlike many formalisms, they also have certain inherent meaning defined by their operational semantics, or, in the case of markup languages, presentation semantics. And programming languages, though…
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Why do websites have to ask language and country when the browser can tell them that?

So, why do websites have to ask (spoken) language and country when the browser can tell them that? Edit: Specifically, I mean why not use the accept-language section in the http header, set by the language settings in the browser, not based on the…
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Are programmers good at learning "spoken" languages?

This might be slightly off topic, but I'll risk it, as the site is about Programmers ! Programmers are good at constantly learning new programming languages, but how good are they at learning a new spoken language ? Have you taken up a foreign…
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Non-English-based programming languages

The University of Antioquia in Colombia teaches its introductory programming courses in Lexico, a Spanish-based, object-oriented .NET language. The intent is to teach programming concepts in the students' native language before introducing…
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Scrum for team split between two spoken languages

I have a team that without a single common language among all of the team members. The team is split across two locations (though the geography isn't the main issue). All team members in each location speak the same language and there are members in…
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What are the most important concepts to understand for "fluency in developer English"?

In April, I'm going to be giving a talk called **English 2.0 - Understanding the Language of Developers" to a group of English teachers. The purpose is in two hours to give them a quick background in key concepts so that they can better understand…
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Does one's native spoken language affect quality of code?

There is a school of thought in linguistics that problem solving is very much tied to the syntax, semantics, grammar, and flexibility of one's own native spoken language. Working with various international development teams, I can clearly see a…
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Why don't compilers support non-English keywords?

When you read C, C#, Java, Python, PHP and many other programming languages all the syntax is written in English. Simple code like this if (X+1 > 4) { } while (A == true) { } Is written in English even if the programmer's native language is…
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Dealing with bilingual(spoken language) code?

So I've got to work with this set of code here for a re-write, and it's written by people who speak both English and French. Here's a snapshot of what I'm talking about (only, about 4000 lines of this) function…
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Does knowing Latin or other logical languages contribute to being a better programmer?

I'm currently studying Latin at school, and what I've learned is that it's a very logical language. I feel this has contributed to my programming ability, as it makes it my code easier to understand. Is there any relation between knowledge of a very…
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