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- From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark)
- Subject: Re: AVL trees - Re: Why Are Red-Black Trees Obscure?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.131806.29957@uwm.edu>
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- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- References: <1992Sep1.142904.430@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1992Sep2.022227.9117@reed.edu> <1992Sep2.103526.20072@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 13:18:06 GMT
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- In <1992Sep2.022227.9117@reed.edu> orpheus@reed.edu writes:
- > Another good example is trying to reverse engineer the Fibonacci priority
- > queue from LEDA, which I seem to remember is coded in C++ with commentary
- > in German. (Why is there so much sexy code out there commented in German?
- > I've taken a bunch of natural languages, but German just doesn't happen to
- > be one of them, and it's the only one I have an immediate use for.)
-
- In article <1992Sep2.103526.20072@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:
- >An interesting question, in Germany too: Which *natural* language to
- >use? Many people write their comments in English, but there are some
- >(esp. in the academic environment) who do everything in German, to
- >(allegedly) 'enhance understandability' (which is not true in most
- >cases) or just to keep hold on the use of German. But not
- >understanding the language is always a problem. If you want to study
- >Informatik (Computer Science) in Germany and don't know English,
- >you'll get into trouble.
- >MfG,
- > Olaf
-
- I personally don't care what language anyone writes their comments in. Number
- one, I don't pay attention to the comments because it gets in the way of
- reading and understanding the code and seeing its structure. Two, if it's any
- language from Europe, I'll probably understand the comments. Three, if I
- don't understand it, then that's even better, because then I have a Rosetta
- Stone, since I already understand the code. So then that's yet another
- language I get an easy opportunity to learn, using the program itself.
-