Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
by ThinkingGuy on Friday October 25, 2019 @11:27AM
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"There was no Committee," by Geoffrey Pullam really captures my feelings as a mostly monolingual native English speaker:
https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2014/04/30/ther...
Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
by mar77i on Friday October 25, 2019 @10:17AM
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Well the question is why you'd want to allow it to become your problem, too, though. Having to debug libraries written in Elder Futhark or, case in point, Arabic, seems much more impossible than it may already seem sometimes, and that's why I'm not going to write a programming language in Swiss German, and keep my comments in English too, for that matter.
Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
by microcolonel on Friday October 25, 2019 @12:01PM
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I think it comes from a good place in the heart, but people really shouldn't look for ways to drag themselves into other people's problems out of "fairness". Many societies have a nominal interest in teaching English to their people, but fail in practice. Fixing English education (or really language teaching in general) is a far more useful thing than torturing yourself with a language not suited to typewriter keyboards, such as APL or Arabic.
I could imagine it might be less unfair in a situation, like in much of Europe, where nobody is a native English speaker but many speak it (sort of like Latin at one time). And there are of course huge benefits from a standard language. But it still bugs me.