I guess Emp meant to use chinese names as proverb or pronoun. eg. to write the sentence salary =. hourlyrate * workinghour as 薪金 =. 時薪 * 工時
which might be a common practice amongst programmers in china. (unverified). On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Alan K. Stebbens wrote: > Emptist, > > I'm glad that you are satisfying your need to an easier path to > productivity in your native language. > > If this is your only requirement, then on that basis, your work is > fine, and I'm guessing that you are sharing because you think there > are others who need to read (and think) in Chinese in order to write > and use J? > > While your work is admirable from a purely technical point of view, > it's actually a step backwards in part of the broader view of what > programming is about: sharing algorithms. > > IMHO, there are two reasons to write readable programs -- to help you > get things done more easily later, or to help others get things done > later. > > If your sole concern is yourself, or those few people who read Chinese > AND can read and parse J, then perhaps this work is useful. > > If you have any concern for others being able to read and understand > your algorithms, as you have expressed them, then it really becomes > important to use a common language -- that of J expressed in ASCII. > > J is hard enough to parse, even for J-ers, and comprehend, as it is in > ASCII. But it becomes even more obscure for much of the world if you > write J in Chinese. > > If you contribute an interesting algorithm and it is written in J/ > ASCII then more people will be able to read, comprehend, appreciate, > and perhaps use that algorithm than if you write it in J/Chinese. > > I realize that the number of people speaking Chinese in the world is a > very, very large number, but it is not quite the international > language that English currently is. Of course, this may change, and > perhaps someday, my descendants may be speaking one of the Chinese > dialects, and perhaps writing the common Chinese language. But, > until that day arrives, if you have any belief that your algorithms > have a life of utility for others, then you should reconsider > expressing them in Chinese -- unless you do not care if they are ever > useful to others. > > Alan > > PS: Just so you don't think that I do not appreciate other human > languages, I have studied and speak with varying degrees of fluency > Spanish, Russian, and Japanese. I even studied a semester of Chinese > to better learn the origins of Japanese kanji. > > para mí, el lenguaje es una ventana a la cultura > > > On Sep 14, 2009, at 8:48 AM, emptist wrote: > > [---=| TOFU protection by t-prot: 26 lines snipped |=---] -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
