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Remco Gerlich scarblac-spamtrap at pino.selwerd.nl
Mon Jan 31 06:38:24 EST 2000 
Jason Stokes wrote in comp.lang.python:
> >There are two complaints about Python as a first language that I've heard:
> >1) Basically all the documentation is in English. Not a problem for you.
> 
> Python isn't the only language that has a documentation gap like that.  The
> whole programming world is incredibly English-centric, and most European
> programmers seem to be able to speak English.

Well, there are books in Dutch for many more popular languages, like
C and Perl. I haven't seen any on Python yet. A Dutch web page is being
made (http://python.nl.linux.org). 

Yes, the ones that use Python fanatically already know English. It's the
people who can't program yet who have a problem with learning a lot of
info from English text. And I want non-programmers to learn programming,
in Python :-).

I suppose I should start helping the Dutch web page project...
-- 
Remco Gerlich,  scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl
"This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the
 overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context"  (David Moser)
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