Non-English Variable, Function, and Symbol Names in Code

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Recently, I switched jobs from karriere.at, Austria's largest job platform, to the Austrian Federal Computing Centre, where my colleagues and I work on modernizing Austria's digital tax services. One of the first things I noticed, looking at the new codebase, was that we heavily use German terms for naming certain classes, functions, and variables. At first, this seemed to me like a giant red…

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