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- From: wallmann@backus.pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Natuerlich!)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Profibuch (was Julian Reschke involved...)
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 19:19:07 GMT
- Organization: MSD software vault #9 @THD
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- Message-ID: <1js5nbINNfes@rs2.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
- References: <memo.883170@cix.compulink.co.uk> <8701@charon.cwi.nl>
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- In article <8701@charon.cwi.nl> jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) writes:
- >apelled@cix.compulink.co.uk (Adam Pelled) writes:
- >> (Julian F. Reschke) writes:
- >>> (William Rosenkranz) writes:
- >>>> (Sander Stoks) writes:
- >>>>> Boy, am I looking forward to the Falcon Profibuch!
- >>>> will this be available in english?
- >>> Probably not, because currently there are not enough possible
- >>> customers to justify the translation costs (more than 1500 pages
- >>> of technical text -> expensive!).
- >> i'm not so sure. There are a lot of English speaking countries; Britain
- >> and the States. i would think that there would be sufficient demand to make
- >> it worth somebodies while.
-
- >Right! Not to mention all countries who's inhabitants don't speak German
- >but *do* speak (or at least can read) English.
- >
- >And besides, doesn't computer jargon write much easier in English in the
- >first place! It took me some context switching to figure out that the
- >German word "speigern" means "to store in memory" although that's
- >not the fault of the German language but more of my limited knowledge of
- >the language :).
-
- For the price of the Profibuch (80.-DM ~ $50 per 1200+ pages) you should
- be still 'liquid' (in money terms) enough to also buy a German dictionary.
- This way you'll learn some German, which will be for your future
- career probably even more profitable than knowing the VDI calls. (har)
- Since most of the stuff you can guess, (like what's Malloc gonna do ??) and
- the jargon draws quite a lot from English, this I think oughta be feasible.
-
- (I had to read english manuals from the tenderest age, there was nothing
- else available (sob))
-
- Nat!
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