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"German comments removal" sounds like a lot of work. It is always very annoying when programmers comment (or even name their variables/functions/whatever) using another language than English.

Most APIs are based on English so this makes a very messy combination. And yet people do it often, hindering the possibility of foreigners to contribute.

A recent example I've run into is the WYSIWYG editing extension for ShareJS, with all comments in Russian. I'd love to reuse it, but this just keeps me away:

https://github.com/rizzoma/ShareJS/blob/master/src/client/ri...

(note: I can read Cyrillic characters and do understand some Russian, but still)



Note that the original StarOffice was written by a German company. These comments might be in the oldest parts of the code.

Wikipedia: > The German company StarDivision in Lüneburg (founded by 16-year-old Marco Börries in 1984) wrote the original components of StarOffice


  as detected by Miklos' nice bin/find-german-comments script
Don't know why, but it made me laugh.

  bin/german-and-comment
would have been a great pun.


I think bin/germane-comment would have been a great pun.


I'm sorry, I've really tried and even said this out loud a couple times, but I don't get the pun. Explain?


Ich bin <=> I am

Ich bin Deutscher <=> I'm german

ich bin german and comment <=> I am german and comment

or bin german and comment <=> am Deutscher und kommentiere


BTW, You don't have to use rizzoma source. We publish it just because people ask.

English version for our rich editor will be launched after supporting of most browsers be ready.




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