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Re:Show HN: Pakhi – Bangla Programming Language by aramachandran7 on Saturday March 06, 2021 @01:42PM (#26369498)
How common are programming languages designed with base languages other than english? This is the first one i’ve seen.
Re:Show HN: Pakhi – Bangla Programming Language by dmt0 on Saturday March 06, 2021 @02:09PM (#26369663)
Re:Show HN: Pakhi – Bangla Programming Language by ahamez on Saturday March 06, 2021 @01:57PM (#26369594)
IIRC, AppleScript was once usable in languages other than English.
Re:Show HN: Pakhi – Bangla Programming Language by ygra on Sunday March 07, 2021 @04:10AM (#26374391)
Whether it's actually _designed_ with those languages in mind is a different question. VBA (in)famously was also translated for non-English versions of Office, but that only involved replacing the keywords by translated ones in the other language. German VBA read _very_ weirdly to me, back then.
Re:Show HN: Pakhi – Bangla Programming Language by bobochan on Saturday March 06, 2021 @05:29PM (#26371114)
This is a different take, but I have always been a huge fan of Damian Conway's Lingua::Romana::Perligata, a thought experiment in writing Perl in Latin.

Just a taste from the documentation: "To simplify the mind-numbingly complex rules of declension and conjugation that govern inflexions in Latin, Perligata treats all user-defined scalar and array variables as neuter nouns of the second declension -- singular for scalars, plural for arrays."

Re:Show HN: Pakhi – Bangla Programming Language by krylon on Saturday March 06, 2021 @05:29PM (#26371115)
I vaguely remember reading about an esoteric programming language that was based on Klingon. IIRC, it was a functional language. (-:

But I do not speak or read or write Klingon, so I never looked at it, and I do not remember the name, either. It did make me chuckle, though.

Re:Show HN: Pakhi – Bangla Programming Language by gabordemooij on Saturday March 06, 2021 @02:00PM (#26369612)
Well there is Citrine: https://citrine-lang.org/ - it offers a specialized version for over 110 human languages.