Re^5: PBP in German out of print - solutions? -- lost in translation

Hello LanX,

my first thought was the same of shmem as he expressed it above.

> That's a pretty arrogant approach, ..

I cannot see any arrogance from shmem even if he used the shitty adjective related to translations.

> .. our working language is German.

Figure mine is Italian (Eatalian)! It is unuseful to hide ourself behind a little finger: computers world is totally dominated by English language. Olivetti loose the game and PC has born in English speaking lands. Amen.

It is unbelievable that a programmer, a Perl programmer nowadays is unable to read and understand technical documentation in English. I do not say he must able to write and to speak as an English native, but c'mon English is a very simple language to read and understand!

A stack is a stack and the same is for array and tail call .. what if someone present himself here asking for queue call problem while he meant a tail call one?

More: we live in shared world and community: in my opinion even sourcecode must be thought in English, directly. What if you find sourcecode in github in Polish? good luck..

I started coding in Eatalian; it was many years ago: see my second post here (2002) I had to explain a bit the translation of some variable name. I abandoned Eatalian the very same year for source code..

Now I can read and, somehow, write back a good level english, not everytimes but it seems you understand me, so must not be so bad. Consider I never take a course of English at school nor privately.

Can I finally assert that English understanding is unavoidable requisite for a programmer? If your coworkers will spend some time/money in English lessons it can be only a positive thing in perspective.

> And I've seen far too many native English speakers in this business who only excelled in speaking English and in nothing else.

This is another story, an unrelated one: world is full of stupid people

> And too many stupid German bosses with your attitude supporting them...

See above and consider that I cannot see nothing in the shmem answer deserving to be put within stupid German bosses.

That's it.

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Re^6: PBP in German out of print - solutions? -- lost in translation by LanX (Saint) on Sep 14, 2017 at 09:56 UTC
At the moment I'm "selling" Perl to non-programmers who can find documentation for other languages (like VB) for free in their native language. They all speak English, but PBP has >500 pages, if looking up words for each page stops readers for just half a minute in average we are talking about extra costs of at least 4 hours per person multiplied with a 100€ price per hour for the company. This is not calculating the costs to "discuss" a page in two languages. I'd rather find a German book from another author then. Talking about English speakers, if you go to `YAPC::EU` you will find that the worst presentations are made by "native speakers". They are so ignorant about the problems to communicate in a foreign language, that they use slang vocabulary, heavy accents and even keep transporting clichés and slurs about other cultures. In other words: The real conference language is "broken Englsih" and not Cockney. BTW: Parlo anche italiano. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!}	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: PBP in German out of print - solutions? -- lost in translation by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 14, 2017 at 10:41 UTC
If you're looking at a cost of EUR 100 per hour, the quoted prices on Amazon suddenly look favourable. Spending EUR 54, EUR 85 and EUR 2xx on three books doesn't sound that expensive then.	[reply]
Re^8: PBP in German out of print - solutions? -- lost in translation by LanX (Saint) on Sep 14, 2017 at 10:48 UTC
And what if I need more books? edit These prices for used books are calculated by bots, as soon as one is sold the other ones will rise. There is the famous story of a scientific book which was offered for 2 million dollars. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Je suis Charlie!}	[reply]
Re^9: PBP in German out of print - solutions? -- lost in translation by Corion (Patriarch) on Sep 14, 2017 at 11:13 UTC
Re^10: PBP in German out of print - solutions? -- lost in translation by LanX (Saint) on Sep 14, 2017 at 11:18 UTC
Re^9: PBP in German out of print - solutions? -- lost in translation by Anonymous Monk on Sep 14, 2017 at 15:43 UTC


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