Re: does cisco IOS only in English or ????

Hi Zack,

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Zack (Doc) <zack_at_tnan.net> wrote:
> Then perhaps a better analogy is a programming language, since we are in
> fact programming the router to operate a certain way.
>
> There is no "German" C++, or "Japanese" Fortran. These are languages
> themselves, which borrow words chiefly from English. IOS is the same in
> that respect. It is a language all of it's own, with it's own syntax and
> occasionally spelling, who borrow's heavily from the English language.

Yeah, sure, so it probably doesn't make much sense to change the
language used for command input but there is a lot of output in
English that would be relatively easy to translate to other languages.

Just trying to illustrate that what happens under the hood and what
happens in the UI are two different things, just like in Windows,
Linux, Mac OS and so on.

Cheers,
Dale

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