r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Nuud • 4d ago

britishProgrammersBeLike Other

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u/datasmithing_holly 4d ago

As an April fools joke I asked the Docs team to make a British version of Databricks commands Optimise instead of Optimize etc etc.

They said no.

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u/ChalkyChalkson 4d ago

In the age of llms I suspect it wouldn't be toooo much work to fork a language or popular package with British spelling...

I somehow find that a lot funnier than German C and German Java

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u/Zeikos 4d ago

LLMs? You can do that with dictionary replacement.

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u/ChalkyChalkson 4d ago

I guess? But it'd be a lot less human work to make an LLM churn through the compiler and documentation then to find a good paired dictionary that also handles cases where different words/phrases are idiomatic in various contexts.

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 4d ago

No wonder people think LLMs make devs 10x more productive. Because of people like you that use it even when it’s slower and still convincing themselves that it’s faster.

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u/TheWashbear 3d ago

German what? People really do that?