🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <8701@charon.cwi.nl> jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) writes:
>apelled@cix.compulink.co.uk (Adam Pelled) writes:
>> (Julian F. Reschke) writes:
>>> (William Rosenkranz) writes:
>>>> (Sander Stoks) writes:
>>>>> Boy, am I looking forward to the Falcon Profibuch!
>>>> will this be available in english?
>>> Probably not, because currently there are not enough possible
>>> customers to justify the translation costs (more than 1500 pages
>>> of technical text -> expensive!).
>> i'm not so sure. There are a lot of English speaking countries; Britain
>> and the States. i would think that there would be sufficient demand to make
>> it worth somebodies while.

>Right! Not to mention all countries who's inhabitants don't speak German
>but *do* speak (or at least can read) English.
>
>And besides, doesn't computer jargon write much easier in English in the
>first place! It took me some context switching to figure out that the
>German word "speigern" means "to store in memory" although that's
>not the fault of the German language but more of my limited knowledge of
>the language :).

For the price of the Profibuch (80.-DM ~ $50 per 1200+ pages) you should
be still 'liquid' (in money terms) enough to also buy a German dictionary.
This way you'll learn some German, which will be for your future
career probably even more profitable than knowing the VDI calls. (har)
Since most of the stuff you can guess, (like what's Malloc gonna do ??) and
the jargon draws quite a lot from English, this I think oughta be feasible.

(I had to read english manuals from the tenderest age, there was nothing
else available (sob))

Nat!
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