Re: (SC22WG20.3030) (TC304.2308) translating logical operators

From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand (Harald@Alvestrand.no)
Date: Sun Jun 11 2000 - 05:18:56 EDT


At 11:09 09.06.2000 -0400, Alain LaBonté wrote:
>À 09:58 2000-06-09 -0400, François Pinard a écrit:
>>Tom Garland <Tom.Garland@ireland.sun.com> 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.

                   Harald

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no



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