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Discussion on: How do you deal with naming when you're bilingual?

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Valentin Pearce

I'm half French half British but French is my mother tongue since I've grown up and lives in France most of (practically all) my life.

I tend to write all my code in English with the exception of assignments that require a naming convention that is in French.

There is one situation where I will write code in both languages though.
I'm currently working on a website with CodeIgniter and the front end is in French. I use names in English for the whole backend code but use French for the frontend.

That is part of the assignment but I find it also helps when debugging because I then know where the bug is.