From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,7f4d16c4ee371eb5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Anders Wirzenius" Subject: Re: Why is it Called a Package? Date: 2000/03/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 604686612 References: <38DF7F38.8D656ABD@lmtas.lmco.com> <38DFB0BC.9FF72EFC@callnetuk.com> <8bpmte$482$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38E357D3.870B61D2@icn.siemens.de> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Trace: read2.inet.fi 954487397 194.251.142.2 (Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:23:17 EET DST) Organization: Sonera corp Internet services X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:23:17 EET DST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Alfred Hilscher" wrote in message news:38E357D3.870B61D2@icn.siemens.de... > > > Jean-Marc Bourguet wrote: > > I find quite easy to use programming languages in which keywords are not > > in my mother language. As a matter of fact, it is perhaps easier, as > > I prefer english keywords, too. If I imagine a program written for > example in german (my nativ language) it looks for me more to be a joke: > > W�hrend I > 0 tue > I := I - 1; > Ende w�hrend; > > > What is the opinion of people with a different character set, e.g. > Chinese, Arabian, Russian ? I prefer English, too, but perhaps it comes from that DOS and Windows, what I have used, has been a little restrictive against letters not belonging to the basic ASCII character set. In other words I am not sure the *odd* characters are not causing any unexpected behavior in some level starting from for example DOS file naming system. Perhaps it is just a question of being too familiar with the basic ASCII character set (brainwashed against something odd) . Niin kauan kuin I>0 suorita I := I - 1; N�ytt�p��tteen_lukum��r� := N�ytt�p��tteen_lukum��r� + 1; Loppu Niin kauan kuin; Anders Wirzenius anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi