• d_k_bo@feddit.org
    61·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • lily33@lemm.ee
      9·
      3 days ago

      Too bad that’s based on macros. A full preprocessor could require that all keywords and names in each scope form a prefix code, and then allow us to freely concatenate them.

        • tromars@feddit.orgEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          That’s how umlauts historically evolved, but nowadays I wouldn‘t say ü short for ue, but its own letter (even though you still can write it as ue if you don’t have it available on your keyboard or whatever)

          • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
            11·
            2 days ago

            Well, my point is that it’s not considered a u, and Austrian and Swiss don’t use it.

            Also, fun fact, some romance languages like French and Brazilian Portuguese have an identical diacritic to umlaut but it’s different. It’s meant to mean the vowel is separate (like in the word naïve)

            • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
              3·
              2 days ago

              We call it tréma. Aka diaeresis. It explicitly tells you to pronounce two vowels near each other separately.
              A typical use is to indicate a normally silent vowel must be read out. For example “maïs” (MA-EE-S’) is completely different from “mais” (MAY).

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    23·
    3 days ago

    I want a programming language that supports German style composite words

    Java

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
    67·
    3 days ago

    Yeah, Excel does that, it always fascinated me. It was so weird writing =KDYŽ instead of =IF in Excel. Different times, I guess.

      • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        7·
        3 days ago

        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.

          • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            Could be. I try to avoid Excel. And I believe “wenn” is a wrong translation, whether the function has that name or not.

      • MedievalPresent@discuss.tchncs.de
        5·
        3 days ago

        Internally Excel saves it in English (or some internal code) and translates it when opened.

        My company switched from Excel-Interops, where you had to send the German function name to Excel. Now we write .xlsx files directly and have to send the English function name. But when opened it displays all functions in German (or whatever localization Excel is set to).

  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    31·
    3 days ago

    At least the names are extremely self-documenting. Some of those German variable names are long enough they might even be self-aware!

    • Scrollone@feddit.it
      24·
      3 days ago

      Yes, I also hate it!

      The Italian version of Excel had the brilliant idea of translating the MID() function into STRINGA.ESTRAI(), which means “extract string”.

      Seriously, what the fuck.

      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        The localisation of office software functions is atrocious in all languages. They should have defaulted to Volapuk, so that at least we could all suffer together.

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
      7·
      2 days ago

      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

    • boonhet@lemm.ee
      41·
      2 days ago

      I hear the French usually program in French as well. I do not want to ever work in France.

      • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        2 days ago

        Nah, just that WinDev thing.
        On the plus side we have actual holidays and good luck bothering me outside of hours, haha!

        • boonhet@lemm.ee
          1·
          2 days ago

          On the plus side we have actual holidays and good luck bothering me outside of hours, haha!

          I mean we have that here in Estonia too :P

    • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 days ago

      Norwegian as well. It’s basically impossible to find the documentation. Translation has somehow changed the order of words, som direct translation of formulaes is not helpful for searches either.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
    331·
    3 days ago

    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).

    • Jrockwar@feddit.uk
      2·
      3 days ago

      Also because, as a person who has studied multiple languages, German is hard and English is Easy with capital E.

      No genders for nouns (German has three), no declinations, no conjugations other than “add an s for third person singular”, somewhat permissive grammar…

      It has its quirks, and pronunciation is the biggest one, but nowhere near German (or Russian!) declinations, Japanese kanjis, etc.

      Out of the wannabe-esperanto languages, English is in my opinion the easiest one, so I’m thankful it’s become the technical Lingua Franca.

      • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
        9·
        2 days ago

        Had the world settled on German, someone might be making a similar argument that the world dodged a bullet by choosing a language with phonetic orthography and words composed of logical building blocks rather than a mess like English

        • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          2 days ago

          Also English is an odd germanic-romance bastard child that Western Europeans tend to like because it has a decent number of cognates for everyone and a simple grammar IF you’re only aiming for simple conversational English. The barrier to entry is quite low, especially if you don’t give a shit about having a thick accent and straight up mispronouncing tricky words (as anyone knows who had a conversation in English with a non-fluent Italian/Spanish/French person).

          OTOH German used to be relatively widely spoken in Eastern Europe, and Slavic languages also use declensions AFAIK, and also even post WWII German held quite a bit of momentum in academic circles.
          So if the Soviet block had gone the Chinese route and become an economic behemoth instead of withering and dying at the dawn of the Information Age, German being the lingua franca (or at least giving English a run for its money) would have been a distinct possibility IMO.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    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).

  • arschfidel@discuss.tchncs.de
    12·
    2 days ago

    integer

    Was soll der Quatsch denn heißen? Wer ist hier integer? Bei uns heißt das Ganzzahl, verdammt!!1!

    *wütende Programmierergeräusche*

  • bzah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    20·
    3 days ago

    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 `

  • Lazycog@sopuli.xyz
    32·
    3 days ago

    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/---/

  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
    7·
    2 days ago

    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.