On 30 May 2013 18:32, Entry <no@no.com> wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 May 2013 at 23:57:01 UTC, Peter Williams wrote:
On 30/05/13 08:40, Entry wrote:
My personal opinion is that code should only be in English.

But why would you want to impose this restriction on others?

Peter

I wouldn't say impose. I'd say that programming in a unified language (D) should not be sabotaged by comments and variable names in various human languages (Swedish, Russian), but be accompanied by a similarly 'unified' language that we all know - English. It is only my opinion though and I wouldn't force it upon anyone.

We don't all know English. Plenty of people don't.
I've worked a lot with Sony and Nintendo code/libraries, for instance, it almost always looks like this:

{
  // E: I like cake.
  // J: ケーキが好きです。
  player.eatCake();
}

Clearly someone doesn't speak English in these massive codebases that power an industry worth 10s of billions.