"H.Merijn Brand" <[email protected]> wrote:
As long as it takes? How would you think Dutch/Polish/French/Russian/...
would like to beat you back with all the `English' verbs in their script
that uses variable with native-language names?
How long has perl allowed you to localise all the builtins?
And even if it did, what about all the CPAN modules - all the ones
I've ever seen use english names.
While I can understand the problem for non-native english speakers
it's an endemic problem to any software at that level (as opposed to
the UI level). I am not aware of any language that's translated in
this way (although there's bound to be at least one, please correct me).
So how is having english names for builtin variables worse than having
english names for builtin functions? Having variables named after
whatever key was spare on the keyboard at the time is not a good
design decision.
Cheers,
Martin.
