• pleasejustdie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    13·
    3 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).

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
      7·
      2 days ago

      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

  • d_k_bo@feddit.org
    53·
    4 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
      7·
      4 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
            12·
            3 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·
              3 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).

  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
    62·
    4 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
        4·
        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).

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
      22·
      3 days ago

      Microsoft should be charged with war crimes for deciding to localize both Formulas AND keyboard shortcuts across the Office Suite.

    • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
      5·
      3 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.

    • boonhet@lemm.ee
      3·
      3 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
        41·
        3 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
          3·
          3 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

          • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            1 day ago

            Haha, fair enough! I’m glad you do!
            If you believed the stereotypes, you’d think we’re the only ones, sometimes :)

            • boonhet@lemm.ee
              3·
              1 day ago

              I think that’s mostly an American stereotype, I believe Estonia and France and several other European countries get roughly the same amount of paid holidays as well as paid time off. Though apparently you guys also have a 35 hour work week, which I’m jealous of!

      • bob_lemon@feddit.org
        4·
        3 days ago

        It’s Microsoft. For some insane reason, excel formulas are localized. E.g. German Excel uses “SUMME()” instead of “SUM()”.

        It’s insanely annoying because it sport of makes it more difficult to ask for help (I.e. only Germans might know what SVERWEIS does). And if you manage to find a solution in English, you need to translate it.

        • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
          2·
          3 days ago

          Thank you for the explanation, I was aware of that.

          My joke was merely on the level of:

          French fucking Excel formulas

  • arschfidel@discuss.tchncs.de
    17·
    3 days ago

    integer

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

    *wütende Programmierergeräusche*

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    20·
    3 days ago

    I want a programming language that supports German style composite words

    Java

  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    27·
    4 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!

  • bzah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    20·
    4 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
    26·
    4 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/---/