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Discussion on: Reality of programmer's English skill in non-English-speaking countries?

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Nana Sakisaka

Interesting!

I've been a bit familiar with Russian hackers mainly on security-related news, recently. They look like Russian Ninjas in my eyes.

I'm pretty sure that Japan has similar reality among top developers. I hope all programmers realize the cultural importance for English-first-ness, while keeping in mind of internationalization & localization. IMHO, All those efforts are just personal efforts for opening yourself to the wild, so it'd be better to be educated (by the community) instead of... say, enforced.

I agree to that national diversity having influence on English support inside codes. There really is a lot difference depending on your national culture.

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Nana Sakisaka

One more thing I remember:

I saw many Russian blog posts when the Nginx web server (originally made in Russia) got first attention in the open source community. I did experience a hard time due to Russian enigma, but it didn't get much worse... for me. People quickly started to write English documentations/posts; nobody was complaining about the Russian language (as far as I remember).