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VIA releases open source Xorg driver

VIA releases open source Xorg driver

Posted Sep 5, 2008 12:14 UTC (Fri) by ekj (guest, #1524)
In reply to: VIA releases open source Xorg driver by nix
Parent article: VIA releases open source Xorg driver

It's still not that hard. Plus, in many MANY languages outside of english, you can easily write in ascii.

German, Norwegian, French, Italian and Spanish all have a few extra letters and/or apostrophes or whatever. Nevertheless it's simple to use norwegian (or german, or italian) names for variables, functions and components.

Even if you -do- decide to use english names, that's STILL not equivalent to needing to know the language. You don't need hearing-comprehension (harder than reading-comprehension for many) you don't need grammar. You don't need pronounciation. You don't need comma-rules, capitalization-rules etc etc etc.

Learning a few nouns and a few verbs isn't more than a small part of learning a language.

Knowing english is helpful. It's in no way required.


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