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bharry's WebLog Orcas Beta 2 builds released for additional languages 지난달에 Visual Studio 2008 베타 2의 공개를

That's great and all (for marketing) but if you're the programmer WHO HAS TO USE these localized versions.....

This may not be the case for every language but some languages have horribly misleading translations of some key technical things. Then when you go down that road you need to keep inventing new native language terms all the time and no one knows what they mean. Result? Tools and OS maybe in native language but the technical people now speak half english and half native and blah blah.

Localized versions of deeply technical stuff have made life a lot worse, you now need to learn english, the new native terms, the slang of mixed english+native for words that lack translation and so on. And you must know english very well anyway, requirement for all programming jobs here.

That's not all folks. These localized versions may have the effect that some unfortunate folk aren't that good in technical english after using these and now are making things even more difficult in international teams and so on.

What I'm trying to get at: Cancel these local versions and make the world a better place.

I fully agree with 'zzz'.

In this 9 languages which will be let go for VS2008 will there be Polish?

I haven't actually tried a localized Visual Studio yet and was basing that on other software.

Given the demand you have, the best compromise is to make it very easy and fast to flip everything to english and back in those localized versions. Maybe it already works like that?

sarcasm:

Have the C#/VB keywords been localized as well? If not then what's the gain here since you'll be learning english whether you want it or not :-)

Would not care about localized versions either. Make things often more difficult (try using the help if you don't know whether the term you look for has been translated or not).

Worst case is Excel, where even the commands have been translated. Now I must know the names of the functions three languages depending on whether I am at home (German), in the office (English) or at my colleagues computer (French).

I learned English because all books on Basic and C++ were in English at the time. Did not do any harm to me.