Crossing the Language Divide...
summary
Claims that source code and docs can be localized end up with specifics: a proof of concept called koro localizes Go into Bengali by replacing keywords and providing bi-directional translation so Bengali code compiles to standard Go and back, a GitHub repo contains the code, and machine translation plus community-sourced docs and localized error messages are proposed. Cites that ~95% of world lacks English as first language and only 1.4% of StackOverflow visits come from China as motivation.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:23Why open source software
- 1:53Finding the mouse
- 2:05Listening to the users
- 2:46The problem
- 3:08The map
- 3:30China and India
- 3:52Stack Overflow
- 4:16Fragmentation
- 4:41lingua franca
- 6:24COBOL
- 7:26COBOL in NATO
- 8:29Modern Structured Programming Language
- 9:09Goro
- 9:57Text Editor
- 11:23Open Source
- 11:58Automated Tools
- 12:25The Secret
- 14:01Automatic Translation
- 14:59Ask for Community
- 16:20Error Messages
- 17:16Documentation
- 18:02Mailing Lists
- 20:52Social change isnt just about technology
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