i've once seen a translated version of a programming language ... pretty useless if you want to share the code or even want to understand the code written in another language ...
On 12/14/05, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
Agreed, but what's your point?
um, isn't it obvious? the point seems to be that translated programming languages are useless. that's how i read it anyway ...
i'd guess it's a vote of 'no confidence' toward your new project.
translation is not a bad thing in general ... but i'd like to be able to use pd even if i sit in front of a french computer ...
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translation is not a bad thing in general ... but i'd like to be able to use pd even if i sit in front of a french computer ...
Well, clearly the choice of localization should be a command line argument, not a compile-time option. But it is in DD, and that's great!
greetings, Thomas
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Thomas Grill wrote:
Tim Blechmann wrote:
translation is not a bad thing in general ... but i'd like to be able to use pd even if i sit in front of a french computer ...
Hey. I can't use _anything_ if i sit in front of a French computer, cause it's got that AZERTY keyboard.
Well, clearly the choice of localization should be a command line argument, not a compile-time option. But it is in DD, and that's great!
better than that, you can switch the language at run-time, and you can customize the language at run-time.
type this command in the Tcl box:
say file "Fly"
and then press Ctrl+N to get:
| Fly Edit View Find Put Media Window Help | `--------------------------------------------'
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