[PD] What about multilingual Pd ?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> Urs Liska hat gesagt: // Urs Liska wrote:
> > It's the same with books on programming languages. I am always 
> > frustrated with books that translate the technical terms (for example 
> > 'member' (of a class) to 'Mitglied') because I basically have to 
> > re-translate it to know what it means...
> Off-topic: The german version of the SICP book even translated the
> example program texts - like "(sende-nachricht 1 2)" -, which in LISP
> is actually possible and could make sense, however I think, it still
> stinks. ;)

für German, it makes more sense to use the Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) 
as commonly used in Forth, PostScript, and HP calculators. e.g.:

  1 2 sende-nachricht

but if in English RPN you do, Yoda you will sound like.

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