Re: Unicode in source code. WHY?

From: Patrick Andries (pandries@iti.qc.ca)
Date: Tue Jul 20 1999 - 14:47:44 EDT


De : Torsten Mohrin <mohrin@sharmahd.com> écrivit :

>To use only one language (and character set) in source code is a
>matter of source code maintenance. My English is not the best, but the
>quality of source code improved a lot after switching from German to
>English.

This is very interesting: could you explain why switching from German to
English [in the use of identifiers] improved the quality of your source code
? This sounds counter-intuitive since one would expect that native German
speakers immediately recognize German words, remember them easily, type them
with more ease than foreign words, finally these words would also describe
their function in a more comprehensible and accurate fashion (the developper
having a wider vocabulary in his mother tongue).

P. Andries
Dorval (Québec)



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