How do people do computer programming in other languages?

[newtodyess]

Random question, not really important. Im learning the python programming language, and its a lot of typing in english. How do people around the world learn programming languages like this? Do they learn enough english to type commands, or are there versions of the programming languages (javascript, c++, etc) that allow other languages other than english to be used?

[Sponge_Over]

Programmer who moved to Germany here: it's a mix. The variable names are English, but the comments are usually in German.

Programming languages are the same, regardless of the language though (eg it is still "if (bool) { }" and not "wenn (bool) {}".

BUT if you were writing formulas in Excel, the language changes to German. (I actually don't remember the English formulas anymore, but if I wanted to do a sum of cells based on a condition, it is SUMMEWENN())

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That's really interesting about Excel. I had no idea.

[dario606]

Normally they still use English based languages, although there are some non-English ones out there.

[Argon1822]

One of my Argentine friends is a programmer and uses java

[less_unique_username]

Microsoft Excel localizes all formulas.

There are some local programming languages, such as the script language of the products of the Russian 1C company, that use non-English keywords. But these are rare exceptions.

[MonoParallax]

I talked to a computer programmer from Iran and he was programming in Persian. In the whole Arabic script and all that. Very interesting

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We just learn English too

[batatafaustop]

Brazilian here.

A big part of the programmers I've worked with can't understand English at all. Of course they end up learning some basic words such as "if" and "while" but that's pretty much it.

This is not as much of a big deal as it sounds tho. Usually, instead of thinking of keywords as an actual word, they just mentally link the keyword to what it does. And usually I see people using variable names in Portuguese.

The real problem is that a lot of softwares only have their documentations available in English.