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Discussion on: 100 Languages Speedrun: Episode 85: Linguagem Potigol

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Matheus Richard

As a native Portuguese speaker, I always cringe when I read code in Portuguese. It's just weird. I wonder how native English speakers feel about this.

This blog post talks a little about this situation: code-anth.herokuapp.com/posts/1

Great overview, btw!

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Tomasz Wegrzanowski

There's at least one place where people use local language for programming, and that's Excel Spreadsheets. From what I can tell, Microsoft uses local names in documentation, and most people use local names, even though English ones work too.