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A Personal Computer For Children Of All Cultures

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Modern programming is not possible without code sharing like this, but because the way languages are built today, using a library means you have to use the exact names of all the declarations that the library author originally used in order to invoke them. Even if your language supports keywords in your native language, even if your language supports Unicode identifiers, if the author of a library you’re using chose English names, which is true of every software library I’ve ever seen, you have to use the exact same English names that they chose in your own program.