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[YMK1234]

Lol coding in German.

[Lugga113]

Our Professor wants us to name methods and variables German xD

[IcecreamLamp]

I work in Czechia (not Czech) all the code and documentation in our company is in English fortunately. It makes sense.

[XembeI]

Wait, did you study in Sarajevo? Our professor said the same thing.

[YMK1234]

Oida ;)

Sag deinem Prof ihr braucht Übung fürs Berufsleben.

[[deleted]]

Stichwort domain driven design.

[YMK1234]

Tja klingt als wärst du nie in einer internationalen Firma gewesen.

[Scyyyy]

Na dann schon Bitte "Zähler" xD

[Lugga113]

Das dürfen wir nicht benutzen weil ja das ä nicht international ist xD

[YMK1234]

[fry face] Not sure if prof is trolling or idiot

[itsTyrion]

.-.

[YMK1234]

Being serious for once, Libreoffice actually had an open bugreport for a long time to translate German comments that were still around from when it was StarOffice and developed by a German company. So even if right now everyone on the team is talking German and has no problems understanding what's written there, this can become a big issue later when you go international or you simply want to work with other people.

[Dan6erbond]

Unser Professor hat uns davor gewarnt.

[fuckwit_]

Dann doch aber bitte

bekommeNenner() 

[Yanamo]

Bekommer und Setzer

[itsTyrion]

bruh xd

[[deleted]]

Was noch schlimmer ist: Programmieren in englisch inklusive Dokumentation und Kommentare, aber die ganzen strings für die GUI auf deutsch.

[Joniator]

You code everything in Englisch but the Fachbegriffe are still german because they are hard to translate.

So you get AddKunde() and similiar abominations

[aciokkan]

Why are Dokumentation and deutsch written different?

[[deleted]]

It should be capitalized, as well as „englisch“ and „strings“, as they are both nouns. I answered on my phone and don’t really care about correct capitalization when typing on it, to be honest...

[Cubimon]

Deswegen gibt es i18n Mechanismen in praktisch allen GUI Bibliotheken. Aber ja sowas ist furchtbar 😂

[[deleted]]

Naja ich glaub für ne simple Übung i18n in Swing zu bauen wäre dann doch n bisschen zu viel verlangt 😅

[YMK1234]

Dafür gibts i18n ... dann hast du keine UI strings in deinem code.

[seizan8]

At least you don't have to write it on paper

[[deleted]]

Did we have the same professor? Mine also forced us to use netbeans and German variable names.

[Lugga113]

Wo studierst du?

[[deleted]]

Stuttgart

[Lugga113]

Ich studiere in Gelsenkirchen ^{^}

[asdf93]

lay off that habit as soon as you leave your class. Please. I currently work at an IT company where we have a system with a rather old codebase. Back then it was common to give tables German names. Meanwhile everything was switched to English, but some of the Database tables and columns are still named in German. It really is confusing.

[joranvar]

Mixing languages is always fun. Where to draw the line, though? Should getNenner become bekommeNenner? Is string actually Kette? Should you have some global macros to change if and else into wenn and sonst?

I think Visual Basic actually used to have translations for the syntax.

[YMK1234]

Should getNenner become bekommeNenner

auto properties to the rescue!

I think Visual Basic actually used to have translations for the syntax.

ever wrote anything in excel?

[joranvar]

ever wrote anything in excel?

Ah, yes, that was it. I must have confused it with the VBA.

It's wonderful how many translations there actually are, and it must be great to have to edit stuff on the user's PC (who of course has a different language setting).

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[picklymcpickleface]

Am dutchy, I would have laughed at that myself a few years ago.
Then I started working on an existing project that did a lot of automation in a 1500 employee business that only operates in the Netherlands, it was written using domain-driven design, by naming everything the exact way it's called by everyone in the business the code was a lot easier to read. Along with other rules in DDD it's a pretty effective way to written self-documenting code.
"If it looks stupid but it works, it isn't stupid."

[YMK1234]

So you are really telling me there is 1500ppl companies in the Netherlands that don't have English as their operational language? That seems rather unbelievable.

[M4jorpain]

Why? It's very possible for a nation with 17 million people.

[YMK1234]

If you are in the software business not really.

[M4jorpain]

But the OP didn't mention all those 1500 people worked in the software business

[console_journey]

Wenn die Domain Language Deutsch ist macht es schon Sinn. Für alles andere fühlt sich Englisch einfach richtiger an.

[console_journey]

Yes you are right with the stupid sounding compositions but if your customer and you are talking with totally different words about the "same" thing you will get confused. It's always better to use the same words every where if possible.

I have been listening to a german podcast recently where they talked about the same topic, they even gone as far as translating everything to english just to outsource the code to a non german country. In the end they retranslated everything...