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Wed, 20 Aug 2008

19:12 – French code

An application I've recently inherited is making my eyes bleed. Its authors felt it would be a good idea to write the application in "French C". All the comments are in French, and there are wrapper functions (like boucle) for for "English" C constructions.

I've said it before: localization sucks. French is a very nice language but not for software. Software is written in C and C looks a bit like English.

Live with it.