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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.

[ category: /code | 7 comments on this entry ]

Couldn't agree more!

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Posted by Pietro Cerutti at Wed Aug 20 19:48:58 2008
A code sample would be nice...

cheers,
paul

Posted by Paul Cobbaut at Thu Aug 21 01:22:54 2008
Paul: Sorry ...  "Proprietary customer information".

Posted by Philip Paeps at Thu Aug 21 08:49:32 2008
I don't think I wrote anything like French C for something like ten years (before that, well, I was, hum, young), as it does not feel right.

And I can't agree more, as I stumbled upon C code written in German, and google translate is not really helping :-)

Posted by Mathieu Arnold at Thu Aug 21 10:59:12 2008
you're not talking about software then, but about "logiciel" ?

I feel and agree with you!

Posted by Jo at Fri Aug 22 11:37:37 2008
I feel your pain. My eyes bleed on a daily basis while reading (and writing!) an unappealing mixture of Java, English and Dutch. What makes matters worse is the apparent inability of my colleagues to ... spell. grunt

Posted by Bram at Sat Aug 23 10:54:20 2008
I agree with you, but people in france doesn't learn english so much.

Posted by David at Tue Sep 16 17:29:58 2008

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