19 Jul
2009
19 Jul
'09
7:05 p.m.
Am Sonntag, 19. Juli 2009 23:42 schrieben Sie:
On Jul 18, 2009, at 9:26 PM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
I don’t think, it’s a good idea to have German identifiers, since Haskell’s keywords are English.
Put it this way: if Haskell's keywords were in German, do you suppose I would write my Haskell code in anything but English?
At least, many people all over the world write their code in something other than their native language. :-)
Does the fact that 'data' is a Latin word mean that some fraction of our Haskell identifiers should be in Latin?
data is also an English word nowadays. Best wishes, Wolfgang