What are you talking about? That must be some super niche use case, cause most IDEs do not do that. And if they do it's exclusively used by people who can't really program.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

Lots of the industrial programming languages are very different to "normal"/"proper" programming languages, and I can see them being localised.

For example, this is (PLC programming language) Ladder Logic code:

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (4 children)

My dad used that a lot to program Siemens Step5 and Step7 PLCs. I think it was German but names were 8 chars since this was straight from the 80s. When he fixed old machines or updated them with new PLCs he had to do full rewrites a few times because nothing was documented in old school machinery.

[–] nebeker@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

If he worked in Germany, did he use English or German mnemonics?

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