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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by egdod on Friday October 25, 2019 @12:19PM (#21356484)
Many of them might well have wound up programming anyway. And so this language has the potential to shunt them off into a likely dead-end language.

Although, yes, it might be a “gateway drug” kind of thing where they wind up learning more mainstream languages as well. I’m just saying it’s not an obvious and unalloyed win.

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Re:قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic by gkfasdfasdf on Friday October 25, 2019 @12:48PM (#21356811)
Is scratch a dead-end language? It's not used for anything production grade, and it can't be modified in vi because it requires a gui of all things!

Yet millions of children (and adults) learn about programming through scratch and create amazing things. It is not a dead-end language.

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