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From: hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Coding in English
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Date: 22 Jan 91 11:51:42 GMT
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Organization: Not an Organization

In article <1991Jan20.023612.14976@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, Kent Paul Dolan writes:

>
>zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) writes:
>> software. The people who wrote the programs can not write English
>> well. The people who can write English well can not understand the
>> computer programs.
>peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) responds:
>> Just to assure you: This is nothing special for English.
>> Pure horror!
[...]
>
>And in a horrible burst of jingoism (note the followup!) I chip in:
>
>Probably a smiley should be in there someplace, but I learned German,
>Latin, and Spanish, and I still want to see the code and docs and even
>commentary in English, damnit.
>
That's allright, but there are more and more users which have to use a
computer, but which are not able to understand the manuals in english.

But if hard- and software is distributed in a land where they speak another
language than the developpement language, the local distributor should
at least take someone to read the translated manual carefully and to
discover and correct the errors.

-Heiko

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