11INTERNATIONALIZATION
Like all great travelers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.—Benjamin Disraeli, Vivian Grey
When it comes to making software available in other languages, native English speakers are a little arrogant—but who can blame us? We’ve been taught almost from childhood, through every experience we’ve had in this industry, that English is the only important language—so much so that we don’t even think about it anymore. All computer science–oriented research and academic discussions in communities of any consequence are in English. Even our programming languages have English keywords.
Some might ...
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