Language use in software

Yeo, Alvin; Barbour, Robert H.

Language use in software

dc.contributor.author	Yeo, Alvin
dc.contributor.author	Barbour, Robert H.
dc.date.accessioned	2008-10-22T02:01:56Z
dc.date.available	2008-10-22T02:01:56Z
dc.date.issued	1997-07
dc.description.abstract	Many of the popular software we use today are in English. Very few software applications are available in minority languages. Besides economic goals, we justify why software should be made available to smaller cultures. Furthermore, there is evidence that people learn and progress faster in software in their mother tongue (Griffiths et at, 1994) (Krock, 1996). We hypothesise that experienced users of English spreadsheet can easily migrate to a spreadsheet in their native tongue i.e. Bahasa Melayu (Malaysia’s national language). Observations made in the study suggest that the native speakers of Bahasa Melayu had difficulties with the Bahasa Melayu interface. The subjects’ main difficulty was their unfamiliarity with computing terminology in Bahasa Melayu. We present possible strategies to increase the use of Bahasa Melayu in IT. These strategies may also be used to promote the use of other minority languages in IT.	en_US
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.citation	Yeo, A. & Barbour, R. (1997). Language use in software. (Working paper 97/20). Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato, Department of Computer Science.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1170-487X
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/1116
dc.language.iso	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Computer Science Working Papers
dc.subject	computer science	en_US
dc.title	Language use in software	en_US
dc.type	Working Paper	en_US
uow.relation.series	97/20