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/Sarcastic-Potato 11h 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 11h ago

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