From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: Why is it Called a Package?
Date: 2000/03/29
Date: 2000-03-29T09:49:48+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ya7285s3.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38DFB0BC.9FF72EFC@callnetuk.com
Nick Roberts <nickroberts@callnetuk.com> writes:
> Of course, for all those poor souls whose native language is not
> English, but who must program (Ada and other languages) in English,
Ada is more liberal than other programming languages here because you
can use non-ASCII characters in identifiers. (I wonder whether anyone
actually does this, though...)
BTW: Microsoft completely localized the version of Visual Basic for
Applications which was part of Excel 5.0, including the keywords and
the runtime library. I have no idea why they did this as it makes
distributing code extremly painful. Perhaps they got the idea from
spreadsheet formulas which are traditionally localized? In the end,
they gradually reverted the localization (first, the keywords and the
runtime library were left unlocalized, and the Excel object library
finally followed, I think), but of course, this was causing quite a
lot of problems on its own.
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-27 0:00 Why is it Called a Package? Gary Scott
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-03-30 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-04-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-06 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-04-09 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Paul Graham
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-12 0:00 ` Comment from the trenchs Robert Brantley
2000-04-13 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
2000-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Brantley
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Why is it Called a Package? Robert A Duff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-04-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-04-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-30 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-03-31 0:00 ` Anders Wirzenius
2000-03-29 0:00 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-28 0:00 ` Gary Scott
2000-03-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
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