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If you can't speak english, you can't program for sure. I work with some people who are not very good english speakers. I can see it in their code. Sometimes its a mix of english and their own language. Very bad. NO-HIRE



Last year I worked as a freelancer for a company which sold physical stuff over the Internet (ecommerce). All the code I inherited was procedural PHP written with Swedish comments and variable names.

I speak three languages, Swedish is not one of them. That was an awful summer.


In such cases even if you make it a policy to use only English, it can still bite you - for example, subtle grammar errors in variable names in a large codebase will be maddening for anyone except the original programmer.




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