Duplicate Should identifiers and comments be always in English or in the native language of the application and developers? For people who are not native English speakers, which language do you use to declare variables, classes, etc. ? I had to continue a project from a Spanish guy. Everything was written in Spanish. Since this t...
hi I am working on a project and I have one page that displays a calendar extender in English and another extender in another page in Hebrew. How do I set up the culture of a control/page? The page that displays the calendar extender in Hebrew, also displays the File uploader in English, how is that possible? ...
My code reads in a file, usually HTML but it could be any plain text. Now I was thinking to have each piece as a separate module loaded externally at run time so I don't have to maintain it. I would like to use a scripting language to parse the text/strings and call my appropriate c or c++ functions. What scripting language would be good...
Hi, I'm about to produce a prototype for a technology startup that I've just joined, and I'm trying to decide which language to use. It's going to be a simple web tool with a MySQL database in the background and some AI stuff going on in between. I've used Ruby and PHP a reasonable amount in the past, but wonder whether I might be bette...
As already discussed in "Lua as a general-purpose scripting language?" Lua currently probably isn't the best scripting language for the desktop environment. But what do you think about the future? Will Lua get so popular that there will soon be enough libraries to be able to use it like Python, Ruby or something similar? Or will it sim...
I trying to implement a typical languages menu where users can select the language they want to view the site in through a menu that appears throughout all pages in the site. The menu will appear on multiple master pages (currently one for pages where users are logged in and one for pages where users are not). My current implementation...
Hi, I studied computer engineering 10 years ago and i know all the basics of object programming. I didn't write any code for 5 years but actually I'm thinking to go back to this business for a specific need : Now I'm a mathematic teacher in a secondary school and i want to develop a little software that help students to organize their g...
What's the importance of having an interpreter for a given language written in the target language (e.g. PyPy)? ...
I would like to hear opinions or peoples experiences regarding Rel. Is it destined for the dustbin, or is it the next big thing in programming? I haven't tried doing anything with it yet (and it looks like you really can't at this point), but I'm intrigued by a few of the concepts discussed in it. Notably: Removal of nulls completel...
The basics have already been answered here. But is there a pre-built PHP lib doing the same as Lingua::Identify from CPAN? ...
As a huge XSL fan, I am very happy to use xsl as the view in our proprietary MVC framework on ASP.NET. Objects in the model are serialized under the hood using .NET's xml serializer, and we use quite atomic xsl templates to declare how each object or property should transform. For example: <xsl:template match="/Article"> <html> ...
Hi there, I'm currently working on an ASP.NET 2.0 web application that basically maintains product catalogs. The product descriptions are now in English, and we already designed the application to store the same descriptions in multiple languages as well (like Spanish or French). Given the scenario that we would like to translate a pro...
My father has found a Russian language keyboard mapping that he really likes here. However, it is non-standard and therefore is not one that appears in the Languages (Control Panel->Regional and Language Options->Languages->Details->Text Services And Input Languages->Add) dropdown for keyboard layout selection. To my understanding, it ...
I have been working with PHP for a while now and would like to learn some Windows desktop-based GUI applications. Something similar to C# or Visual Basic would be nice, however I would like to learn a language that is open, similar to PHP. Please do not suggest anything that requires an expensive compiler or one that does not allow yo...
I want to write a new application that will use a DBMS. In the design stages of this application and weighing the options I found out that the there will be a lot of database accessing which means many queries. My biggest concern with developing this system is the unwieldy nature of SQL select, update, and delete statements scattered aro...
Is there a place I can find Backus–Naur Form or BNF grammars for popular languages? Whenever I do a search I don't turn up much, but I figure they must be published somewhere. I'm most interested in seeing one for Objective-C and maybe MySQL. ...
I know M is a new language from Microsoft that's targeted as a modeling solution but I'm still a bit fuzzy on usage / rationale / advantages. That's why I'm looking for interesting things that people have done with M, so I can understand it better. ...
This is quite a controversial topic, and before you say "no", is it really, really needed? I have been programming for about 10 years, and I can't honestly say that I can recall a time where inheritance solved a problem that couldn't be solved another way. On the other hand I can recall many times when I used inheritance, because I...
I am looking to write an interpreted language in C#, where should I start? I know how I would do it using fun string parsing, but what is the correct way? ...
I'm building a web portal where language content will generally depend on the "accept-language" sent by the browser. The same content-URI will thus serve different content to different users depending on their browser setting. I'm very curious to know how this will affect search indexing. Does Google index using all languages, and is it...