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		wongarsu on Oct 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in A... In compilers it's not uncommon to output an error code in addition to the human readable message. That allows you to google independent of language. Of course if you turn on localized error messages you might actually prefer results in your own language.

skummetmaelk on Oct 25, 2019 [–]

This sounds like it's coming from someone who has never had to help relatives fix their broken Windows PCs localized in a language spoken by only a few million people.

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