Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
by vectorEQ on Friday October 25, 2019 @04:10AM
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feel the same. there's a lot of people out there who never get a chance to learn any english. to write your own code based on ascii / latin char set might be ok, but to interpret other's code etc. would be very difficult. so for example in a school, having only code examples with ascii could be a significant barrier to teach ,when all other subjects presented are in the local language / character set.
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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
by saiya-jin on Friday October 25, 2019 @04:28AM
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Pardon my french but that's a lame excuse. We are talking about maybe 20 crucial words like "if", "for", "while" etc. If somebody can't learn those, progressing with fully formed programming language will be a mighty challenge.
The drawbacks are numerous and huge - today you can get any code from any guy on the planet, and can read it instantly. He can name variables and comment stuff in his native language, still no problem. That's extremely empowering, and to lose it just that somebody doesn't have to learn few keywords is... dumb.
Having native programming languages beyond some playing around is foolish and step in wrong direction for all of us on so many levels, especially long term.
Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
by jakeogh on Friday October 25, 2019 @04:14AM
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But it still works! Right? The constraints imposed by the programming language self document our var names.
I understand Hindi YT vids that are science related. I dont know Hindi. It's fantastic.
Latin1 is critical. Handing over acceptiable byte sequences that our cli's acccept to standards bodies is a mistake. https://github.com/jakeogh/angryfiles