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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A system for localizing documentation strings
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:11:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IEn0x-0004bE-FO@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A735187-31F6-47CB-A632-DB38D224564B@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:22:46 +0900)

    There is absolutely _no_ need whatsoever for Japanese people to learn  
    _any_ bit of English to become excellent programmers.

You may be right.  I suspect, however, that many of them need to learn
English to read less-popular technical material which is not so widely
translated.

Be that as it may, it doesn't change the situation for us.  No other
language approaches English in its suitability for being read by
programmers (and users) around the world.

It is a GNU standard that names, comments, and manuals be written in
English.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-28 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 118+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <795F38F4-7253-47DC-97DD-53BED4F0AB97@mx6.tiki.ne.jp>
2007-07-26  3:29 ` Fwd: A system for localizing documentation strings Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-26 11:54   ` Kenichi Handa
2007-07-26 13:28     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-27  0:30       ` Kenichi Handa
2007-07-27  1:18         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-26 12:13   ` Fwd: " Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-26 13:51     ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-26 14:50       ` Jason Rumney
2007-07-26 15:27         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-26 15:41           ` Jason Rumney
2007-07-26 15:49             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-26 16:15               ` Jason Rumney
2007-07-26 16:25                 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-26 16:28                 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-26 16:44                   ` Jason Rumney
2007-07-27  5:04                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-27  7:22                       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-27  7:49                         ` David Kastrup
2007-07-27  7:52                           ` David Kastrup
2007-07-27 11:16                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-27 12:07                           ` Kenichi Handa
2007-07-27 12:26                             ` David Kastrup
2007-07-27 12:53                               ` Kenichi Handa
2007-07-27 14:43                             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-28 14:11                               ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-27 16:03                             ` Henrik Enberg
2007-07-27 14:09                           ` Werner LEMBERG
2007-07-27 18:47                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-27 11:37                         ` David Kastrup
2007-07-28 14:11                         ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-07-26 15:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-26 15:42         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-26 16:03           ` Jason Rumney
2007-07-26 16:23             ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-27  5:04               ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-26 19:34           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-26 19:54             ` David Kastrup
2007-07-26 15:36     ` Fwd: " Andreas Schwab
2007-07-26 19:09       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <871weuk228.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
2007-07-27  9:53           ` Andreas Schwab
2007-07-27 11:14             ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-27 11:43               ` Andreas Schwab
2007-07-27 11:59                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-27 12:17                   ` Andreas Schwab
2007-07-27 18:36                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-27 14:56                   ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-27 15:18                     ` Jason Rumney
2007-07-27 15:28                       ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-27 15:59                         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-27 16:09                         ` Fwd: " Jason Rumney
2007-07-27 17:53                           ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-28  3:13                           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-27 16:14                         ` Fwd: " David Kastrup
2007-07-27 16:55                           ` Jason Rumney
2007-07-27 12:27             ` Kenichi Handa
2007-07-27 15:00             ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-27 11:12           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-27 11:45             ` Andreas Schwab
2007-07-27 12:18             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-07-27 12:08               ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-27 16:24         ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-27  2:16   ` Summary (Re: A system for localizing documentation strings) Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-27  5:44     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-27  7:24       ` David Reitter
2007-07-27  7:45         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-27  8:03     ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-27  8:18       ` Jason Rumney
2007-07-27  9:04         ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-27  9:22           ` David Kastrup
2007-07-27  9:39             ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-27  9:46               ` David Kastrup
2007-07-27 11:49               ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-27 15:11                 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-27 11:20           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-27 14:52             ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-27 12:13           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-27 15:16             ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-27 15:55               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-27  8:21       ` David Kastrup
2007-07-27  9:08         ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-27  9:33           ` David Kastrup
2007-07-27  9:38             ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-27 11:05           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-27 11:19             ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-07-27 11:23           ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-28 14:11         ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-27 11:08       ` Andreas Schwab
2007-07-27 11:15       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-27 11:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-27 11:59         ` Jason Rumney
2007-07-27 13:13           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-27 13:42             ` David Kastrup
2007-07-27 14:12               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-28 14:11               ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-28 22:49                 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-27 15:07         ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-27 15:41           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-27 16:11             ` Andreas Schwab
2007-07-28  2:57               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-28 14:11       ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-27 16:24     ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-28  2:53       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-29  2:22         ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-29  4:46           ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-29 16:55             ` M Jared Finder
2007-07-30  0:57               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-30 16:43             ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-30 17:04               ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-31  3:38                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-31  4:16                   ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-07-31  6:05                     ` Jan Djärv
2007-08-02  0:32                       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-08-02 23:43                         ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-01 18:11                     ` Davis Herring
2007-08-02  0:25                       ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2007-08-02  5:47                         ` Miles Bader
2007-07-27  5:04   ` Fwd: A system for localizing documentation strings Richard Stallman
2007-07-27  8:29     ` Jean-Christophe Helary

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