Am Mittwoch, 15. Juli 2009 05:27 schrieben Sie:
On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
Why do we use English for identifiers? Because English is the language of computer science. What English should we use? It’s tempting to say, we should use the original English, which is British English. But we should ask again what is the language of computer science. And the language of computer science is American English.
It was possible to adopt such an attitude in the 20th century. But this is the 21st century. We have globalisation, internationalisation, localisation. We have Unicode, so that people are no longer limited to the set of characters that technicians from the USA found tolerable back in 1967.
So I should upload a package with German identifiers to Hackage? Best wishes, Wolfgang