I'm not so sure all German's like the situation
A Pan Am 727 waiting for start clearance in Munich overheard the following:
Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start clearance time?"
Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English."
Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?"
Unknown voice from another plane (in a British accent): "Because you lost the bloody war!"
But I'm from Belgium and I have read some "french and dutch code". My advice: "don't go there".
There have been languages that have translated to local languages or were/are available in localized versions. For instance excel converts your formula's to local language (settings). But also other more professional languages have tried it.
In general they become popular locally but hardly get "world sized" for the obvious reason of code reuse.
What could I do with code from a Chinese if it were in Chinese?
Don't forget that appart from the words there is also the formatting issue 1,000 and 1.000 in Belgium is 1.000 and 1,000 in USA. If you ever copied excel formula's from the internet and it didn't work, this was very likely to be the cause?
Would you like to copy and adapt
Voor(KlantID =0, KlantID < AantalKlanten,KlantID++) {drukAf(KlantID).}
to
for(CustomerID =0; CustomerID < NumberOfCustomers; CustomerID ++) {print(CustomerID );}
Best regards
Jantje