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Monkeying around with Automated T
ranslation Results
Just for kicks, I decided to mess around with using the online Babelfish
translation service. I took an article off the web and had it translated
into every single language that this translation supported. It
should come as no surprise that the results are rough at best. For
example, the following English text:
It also betrays a certain naivete about the immediate damage that
can result from poor programming style. After all,
even the best software is rarely bug-free. A programmer who
writes clean, legible software will be able to debug his own work more reliably
than someone who writes patchwork code. The latter may
arguably provide fixes more quickly (and even that’s debatable!), but the
results will be unreliable—and when time is short, that’s a luxury which
companies cannot afford.
is rendered in German as
Es verrät auch ein bestimmtes naivete über die sofortige Beschädigung, die aus
schlechter programmierenart resultieren kann. Schließlich
sogar ist die beste Software selten bug-free. Ein
Programmierer, der saubere schreibt, lesbare Software ist, seine eigene Arbeit
zuverlässig auszuprüfen als jemand, das Patchworkcode schreibt. Das
letzte kann Verlegenheiten that.s diskutierbar schneller (und sogar zur
Verfügung stellen strittig!), aber die Resultate sind unreliable.and, wenn Zeit
kurz ist, that.s ein Luxus, den Firmen nicht sich leisten können.
and in Spanish as
También traiciona cierto naivete sobre el daño inmediato que
puede resultar de estilo de programación pobre. Después
de todo, incluso el mejor software es raramente sin faltas. Un
programador que escribe software limpio, legible podrá eliminar errores de su
propio trabajo más confiablemente que alguien que escribe código del remiendo. El
último puede proporcionar discutible arreglos más rápidamente (e incluso that.s
discutible!), pero los resultados serán unreliable.and cuando el tiempo es
corto, that.s un lujo que las compañías no puedan permitirse.
The article was translated into the following languages:
Dutch,
French, German,
Italian, Japanese,
Korean,
Portuguese, Russian
and Spanish
Articles and Stuff
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