Re: [dev] [dwmstatus] Mail counter

From: Carlos Torres <vlaadbrain_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:03:44 -0500

On Dec 21, 2012 11:53 AM, "Christoph Lohmann" <20h_AT_r-36.net> wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:45:28 +0100 Xavier Cartron <thuban_AT_singularity.fr>
wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I tried my first piece of C into adding a mail counter to dwmstatus.
> > The code is added on the wiki [1]
> >
> > Please correct my mistakes.
>
> First thanks for your commit, but you made a big mistake. You assumed we
> all know French. Please, use English on the Internet and *especially*
> when programming. What’s »mail_laposte«? And what’s »Fichier«? I know
> it, because I had to read some code of people assuming people will un‐
> derstand their code when everything is French. Please, write in English
> and go on doing it. This really helps a lot in international communica‐
> tion. French is no major language anymore. Just look: I’m not writing
> this in German and my variable names are not German too. You wouldn’t
> have understood dwmstatus that good, if it would have German variable
> names and maybe suckless.org would be »stinkfrei.de« instead, if we
> would assume the world is speaking German.
>

Does suckless really mean "stink free" in German?

> Please, use English while programming. There is no justification for lo‐
> calized sourcecode.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Christoph Lohmann
>
>
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