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		xiaoma on Aug 20, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japanese writing system basics What traditional character using place are you speaking of? In Taiwan, programmer is 程式設計師 and in Hong Kong, it's 程式設計員. I had thought 程序 was basically a mainland-only variant. Also, FWIW, I couldn't read a paper at 3k characters. It's more like 4-5k if the goal is reading rather than slogging through with a dictionary.

cynix on Aug 20, 2016 [–]

Perhaps GP was thinking of the mainland variant, but only had a Traditional Chinese IME available on the computer.

Speaking of mainland-only variants, their official translation of computer is "计算机" (lit. computation machine).

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