I want a programming language that supports German composite words.
My brother in Turing, that's just camel case.
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But you could go further. I want to be able to define an Auto and a Bahn, then immediately be able to go
new AutoBahn()
Spring JPA Query methods are kind of like the composite words. You just declare a method with a name that describes the database query you want, and it generates the code and SQL for you.
https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/reference/jpa/query-methods.html
POV: ESL programmers
Make enough C macro definitions and you can certainly do that, I did my final project in my high school programming class in the 90's like that, made macros to simulate QBasic syntax and then just wrote it in basic, the end result is the macros converted everything into valid C++ and it compiled fine. Fortunately my teacher for that class was cool, and he was amused by it and since it compiled with no warnings and did what it was supposed to do, I got full marks for it.
Finally, a language where CamelCase feels natural
*KamelKiste
In German you would write "Kamelkiste", nicht "KamelKiste". This holds true for most Java class names. I begin to see huge potential for evil ...
In college, we had to use Hungarian pseudocode. I still have PTSD from it, especially as the teacher was a psycho that had a meltdown every time her "how do you do fellow kids" moment terribly backfired, most infamously by putting Twilight references into a test (everybody audibly cringed reading the tests).
Support your teachers trying to be fun, at least it shows they care enough to put in more effort.
Also I'm curious how she managed to slide in Twilight references of all things in a programming class lol
Yeah its kinda based lol
https://github.com/michidk/rost
Aren't you müde from writing Rust programs in English? Do you like saying "scheiße" a lot? Would you like to try something different, in an exotic and funny-sounding language? Would you want to bring some German touch to your programs?
rost (German for Rust) is here to save your day, as it allows you to write Rust programs in German, using German keywords, German function names, German idioms.
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Wofür steht 'wd'??? Wochendag oder wie??? GEFEUERT werden muss die Person!
Ei fa "Wochedaach" nadierlich. Wie em de Schnawwel gewachst is.
Abor dor Klaus aus Leipzsch saacht das doch so…
Yeah, Excel does that, it always fascinated me. It was so weird writing =KDYŽ instead of =IF in Excel. Different times, I guess.
Does that get translated if someone else with a different language opens that file?
No idea, but I would hope so.
Yes, but it would be funny if you could just switch languages in the middle of your sheet, чтобы можно было начать на русском, continue in English,وانتهى باللغة العربية.
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I hope that the built in translation in iOS can translate to Arabic well
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The best part is that if your version of Excel is German, you can’t write =IF(). You have to use =FALLS().
It’s always fun to google a function and then the translation.
I'm pretty sure it's not FALLS() but WENN(), at least the last time I used Excel.
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I want a programming language that supports German style composite words
Java
French fucking Excel formulas is an abomination and needs to die.
Microsoft should be charged with war crimes for deciding to localize both Formulas AND keyboard shortcuts across the Office Suite.
THIS SO MUCH THIS, LOCALIZED SHORTCUTS ARE PAINFUL, I CAN NOT FIND WAYS TO FULLY EXPRESS MY HATRED FOR THEM AS SOMEONE WHO HAD TO USE OFFICIE 365 IN PORTUGUESE also btw mnemonic shortcuts were a mistake
I'm am immigrant in Brazil and have to deal with Portuguese excel almost everyday. At least I know my Python and only use excel to do simple things.
Edit: all my scripts end with pd.to_excel() tho
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integer
Was soll der Quatsch denn heißen? Wer ist hier integer? Bei uns heißt das Ganzzahl, verdammt!!1!
*wütende Programmierergeräusche*
So wie Menschen, können auch Zahlen integer sein.
Na gut, von mir aus :P
At least the names are extremely self-documenting. Some of those German variable names are long enough they might even be self-aware!
Except, i once encountered the variable HIVZwerg in an abandoned python script I had to maintain and it made me laugh with its absurdity.
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A key reason English became the preeminent language of scientific and technical communication, and thus the source of keywords in programming languages, is because German (the other candidate) fell out of favour due to the two world wars. So, were it not for Prussian militarism, our programming languages may have instead been based on German (along with most scientific literature being in German).
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I am german and I feel physical pain reading this code
I know there is a programming language called windev, all in French, just in case you want to suffer. I would except a good exception handling mechanism in a French base language.
An example from their website: ` TotalCA est un monétaire = CalculCAMoisEnCours()
SI TotalCA >= 1 250 000 ALORS LIB_Objectif= "Objectif dépassé !" LIB_Objectif.Couleur= VertFoncé
SINON SI TotalCA <= 200 000 ALORS LIB_Objectif= "Objectif non atteint" LIB_Objectif.Couleur= RougeClair FIN
FIN `
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My experience with German programming languages is with Siemens PLC's, since the programming language changes together with the IDE when you set the language to German. Looking at Structured Text / Instruction List having U (und) instead of A (and) operator and bunch of other things was interesting.
But IIRC there were also higher programming languages that are in other languages? Wasn't there one for arabic? Was this it: https://github.com/nasser/---/
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Whoa, I was expecting just a light joke & was not prepared for this, lolwut.
I use VBA frequently, don't actually speak German, so I'll ofc try this. And none of my code was ever readable (weirdly lewd, but not fully making sense), so that's fine.
silently goes to German GitHub to learn German words
Functional programming languages kind of are that way. Just chain together enough map calls
I know this is a joke but it's still wild to me that programming languages aren't localised.
The VBA part of the meme is real, VBA is (was?) localized. Turns out it's a horrible idea: some keywords are badly translated, some are not translated at all. Googling localized error messages is useless, so you need to guess the original error message from the translation. Want to copy/paste a function from SO? Not so fast, you need to translate the keywords first! And the variable names as well while you're at it.
Ironically, you end up spending a lot of time on translation-related issues. I've worked on a french-VBA app, and it was a miserable experience (well, even more miserable than english VBA).
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Want to make my job harder? Because that's how you make my job harder.
I guess it would make it way more complicated to use other peoples code if that where the case.
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