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[–] Taewyth@jlai.lu 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want a programming language that supports German composite words.

My brother in Turing, that's just camel case.

[–] Ebber@lemmings.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But you could go further. I want to be able to define an Auto and a Bahn, then immediately be able to go

new AutoBahn()
[–] CmdrKeen@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Spring JPA Query methods are kind of like the composite words. You just declare a method with a name that describes the database query you want, and it generates the code and SQL for you.

https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/reference/jpa/query-methods.html

[–] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

POV: ESL programmers

[–] pleasejustdie@lemmy.world 8 points 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 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah its kinda based lol

[–] d_k_bo@feddit.org 65 points 3 days ago (11 children)

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.

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 74 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Finally, a language where CamelCase feels natural

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 days ago

I want a programming language that supports German style composite words

Java

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago (13 children)

French fucking Excel formulas is an abomination and needs to die.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

THIS SO MUCH THIS, LOCALIZED SHORTCUTS ARE PAINFUL, I CAN NOT FIND WAYS TO FULLY EXPRESS MY HATRED FOR THEM AS SOMEONE WHO HAD TO USE OFFICIE 365 IN PORTUGUESE also btw mnemonic shortcuts were a mistake

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm am immigrant in Brazil and have to deal with Portuguese excel almost everyday. At least I know my Python and only use excel to do simple things.

Edit: all my scripts end with pd.to_excel() tho

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[–] arschfidel@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

integer

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

*wütende Programmierergeräusche*

[–] PapstJL4U@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

So wie Menschen, können auch Zahlen integer sein.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 69 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Yeah, Excel does that, it always fascinated me. It was so weird writing =KDYŽ instead of =IF in Excel. Different times, I guess.

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[–] 30p87@feddit.org 72 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Wofür steht 'wd'??? Wochendag oder wie??? GEFEUERT werden muss die Person!

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ei fa "Wochedaach" nadierlich. Wie em de Schnawwel gewachst is.

[–] AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io 42 points 3 days ago

Abor dor Klaus aus Leipzsch saacht das doch so…

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Seriously, fuck Excel for this. I always hate to look up function names in German.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 26 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Yes, I also hate it!

The Italian version of Excel had the brilliant idea of translating the MID() function into STRINGA.ESTRAI(), which means "extract string".

Seriously, what the fuck.

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[–] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

At least the names are extremely self-documenting. Some of those German variable names are long enough they might even be self-aware!

[–] prinzmegahertz@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Except, i once encountered the variable HIVZwerg in an abandoned python script I had to maintain and it made me laugh with its absurdity.

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 31 points 3 days ago (5 children)

A key reason English became the preeminent language of scientific and technical communication, and thus the source of keywords in programming languages, is because German (the other candidate) fell out of favour due to the two world wars. So, were it not for Prussian militarism, our programming languages may have instead been based on German (along with most scientific literature being in German).

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[–] kotg@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

I am german and I feel physical pain reading this code

[–] bzah@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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 `

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Whoa, I was expecting just a light joke & was not prepared for this, lolwut.

I use VBA frequently, don't actually speak German, so I'll ofc try this. And none of my code was ever readable (weirdly lewd, but not fully making sense), so that's fine.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 32 points 3 days ago (6 children)

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/---/

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

silently goes to German GitHub to learn German words

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Functional programming languages kind of are that way. Just chain together enough map calls

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