Summary

Discuss what written language, (e.g. English/Russian/French/...), source code entries should be written in.

Discussion

There are several examples that are written in none-English. I.e. even though the programming language keywords might be in English, the variables and comments are not. An example would be this and this. Currently there are not many such examples so I would like to start a discussion about whether 'we' collectively, want to expand into this area of multi-language support on RC.
(Forgive me if this has been covered elsewhere - if it has then point out where and I will amend this). --Paddy3118 23:07, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Agree, would look ridiculous, for example, the following code:

<lang>КОЛЬЦО

 ЕСЛИ condition ТО
   action()
 ИНАЧЕ
   exit(); ВЫХОД
 КОН

КОН</lang>

Another thing, sample code of a language with English keywords I put finished piece, written by me long before that; it can be corrected for clarity. As for the use of non-English words in the code on the English site, I suppose, in some rare cases, it is appropriate. I think any little bit educated person in any country knows Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets and easily read the sections of code that use them. Русский 05:58, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

I agree with you. I wrote a task description where I used non-english words (Hebrew I think) to count a series - It might just as well have been Greek, but I was bored with the constant use of Greek so looked for something else. See Probabilistic choice where I used aleph beth gimel daleth ....

Looking at it now, it seems a legitimate use to me. What I think would not work is if someone added code with all the variables and comments in, say, German, for example. --Paddy3118 07:19, 24 March 2013 (UTC)