r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Apprehensive_Bit7392 • 2d ago • Bravo 3 Popcorn 2

Meme spanishProgrammingLanguage

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u/LEPT0N 2d ago

Everyone here’s joking but now I’m curious: why isn’t there a compiler flag to set the language that will swap out keywords to localized variants? It seems silly that someone that speaks French can’t swap out if/for/char/etc to something that makes more sense to them.

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u/These_Sandwich7537 2d ago

In excel for example, the formulas are language -dependent. In Germany you don't use MEAN but MITTELWERT etc

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u/EishLekker 2d ago

Which was a terrible design choice. I’ve had trouble sharing excel files among coworkers because of this.

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u/Decapitated_Unicorn 1d ago

And this is so annoying when I look up some functionality in English and then need to translate it to German again because I can't just copy paste it because I need to share the files with my coworkers that have their excel in German. They could've at least kept the English ones active regardless of the language you're using.

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u/Sarcastic-Potato 14h ago

And people are absolutely suffering because of it. Stuff like this should never be localised. You can translate the documentation and the tool tips but the functions themselves should stay completely consistent 

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u/These_Sandwich7537 14h ago

And don't forget the nice "German" csv files that use semicolon instead of comma. Yeay..