Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language?

gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• blackbeans@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In my experience it’s more common in industrial (plc) and embedded software. Where people don’t have to work in large teams.

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  • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    what does “plc” mean here?

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    • LikeableLime@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Programmable Logic Controller

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      • dbx12@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No, your controls are cursed! It stands for "Pretty Lame Computer"

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        There is a YouTube channel called cursed controls which calls them that.

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• stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s super common if it’s any sort of open source project because the collaborators can be anywhere and English is a good baseline.

  IIRC one of the big tasks when Star Office became Open Office (later Libre Office) was translating a bunch of the German comments to make the code more accessible.

  I’m sure I’ve seen some majority french code bases as well. There are certainly academic hypervisors out of China which have comments in Chinese kanji.

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