� 11:18 2000-06-11 +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand a �crit: >At 11:09 09.06.2000 -0400, Alain LaBont� wrote: >>� 09:58 2000-06-09 -0400, Fran�ois Pinard a �crit: >>>Tom Garland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> > TC304. Does anyone know if the following logical operators are globally >>> > understood or must they be translated for each language? >>> >>> > AND >>> > OR >>> > ~ (not) > >Microsoft abused its users by translating the function names in the Visual >Basic for Applications - Excel 5.0 or thereabouts. >It was really, truly, marvellously horrible. > >They have now learned the error of their ways, and run the same Visual >Basic in all language versions of their newer products. [Alain] Yes. That was an initially unthought mistake. People learn from their mistakes. There would have been a more clever way to do it... It would have been to use numbers internally to convey function ids and to use an editor to translate from/to the user's language, if they would have liked to do i18n cleany on this. Visual Basic being an interpreted language, it needs an editor/interpretor anyway. Alain LaBont� Qu�bec
