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Are all programming languages based on English? (lemmy.one)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you're from a non English speaking country, do you first have to learn English if you want to get into programming?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

I'm from a non-english country and some of my coworkers don't speak English at all, so... no. That said, it's very inconvenient and they use the google translator all the time (which is shit, told them to use deepl at least).

Anyhow, there are programming languages that aren't English based: I don't remember the names but, for example, there is one that uses Latin