From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:28:26 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87lhik129h.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <87sicvwckx.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> <87wq27yvqg.fsf@debian.uxu> <8d531e99-7260-4263-ac99-09c6871e2708@googlegroups.com> <87vbhq53lf.fsf@debian.uxu> <87a8z23p23.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87lhilx0cf.fsf@debian.uxu> <87twx9360u.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <0d1d19ab-06e9-462d-8867-9a49b1e232d3@googlegroups.com> <87lhil2io1.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <87pp7w12gn.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427366425 17298 80.91.229.3 (26 Mar 2015 10:40:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:40:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 26 11:40:22 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb5D1-0003J3-1v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 11:40:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43718 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yb5D0-00027z-E5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2015 06:40:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 8rV6/sOGFf4P3ONiMIp8WQXenIa3+fjtxerhSfHk4JWMVy/IeB Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZTFlMGQyMmNlNGYxMThlNjUwNTA5ZDFkNWM2NGZjMDMyMDgzMjU2Yw== sha1:IwNRU/dCqYb3ueclzg0c+sCUidg= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:211075 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103354 Archived-At: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" writes: >> There is one point pro the use of "more than the ASCII set" in a >> source code. >> >> Take the example of a code-grinder-written kind of program, and >> consider code-grinders that are not native English speakers. >> >> Let's assume that our code-grinder is a native Italian (or French, >> Spanish or German) speaker and he is not used to English. Or the >> project leader does want symbols (i.e. variable names) being in >> the mother tongue of the coders. >> >> In Italian "amount" translates with "quantità", but more than often >> the symbol will be something like "quantita" due to the restriction to >> pure ASCII. No matter what the brain of the coder will feel that >> "quantita" is wrong, he will get used to it. But I think that is much >> better to have a symbol written in a language the coder is able to use >> for thinking. >> >> Just my 2 cents. > > This 2-cents is what leads to Chinese ideograms. > > Not really a progress. And also, you can already do it, using those same Chinese ideograms. 数量 = amount = quantità -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk