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Not really in Germany. Lots of documentation is German only, in some german games (most notably the Anno series) even the scripting languages’ keywords were German ("wenn" instead of "if", "solange" instead of "while", etc).

And even in huge codebases such as SAP, most comments are still German.

Yes, modern codebases are often written in english, but that’s not everywhere.



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