<p>As I continue my quest of learning functional programming, I've come
to wonder if there may be alternatives to my default "procedural" way
of thinking. To be more specific, I'm looking at a function I
wrote. Here is what it does:</p>

<pre><code>Swap two elements of an unordered list of numbers, such that one of the elements  
 is now in the right place
Add the sum of the swapped values to an accumulated total   
Repeat until list is sorted
</code></pre>

<p>So, right now I'm using a standard loop* with an accum variable to do
the above. It works fine and all, and there's certainly nothing wrong
with iteration in real life, but as the point of this exercise is to
expand my way of thinking, I'm curious if there is a more functional
approach to the above algorithm. </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>*(Actually recursion, but whatever)</p>

I don't have any experience crowd-sourcing translations, but my advice would be to find some dependable freelance translators in your target languages (check out Proz.com), and keep going back to them every time you have new content. Application UIs are notoriously difficult to localize because of lack of context in the resource files, and so you want someone who understands the application and is able/willing to test the localized version. Each of the localizations will undoubtedly reveal i18n bugs as well, so there is likely to be a bit of back and forth the first time around. I guess my point is that you don't want arms-length relationships with your translators; they should feel like an extension of your team.
Anyway, bravo for internationalizing your application. Good luck!