Re:Show HN: Pakhi – Bangla Programming Language
by aramachandran7 on Saturday March 06, 2021 @01:42PM
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How common are programming languages designed with base languages other than english? This is the first one i’ve seen.
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Re:Show HN: Pakhi – Bangla Programming Language
by dmt0 on Saturday March 06, 2021 @02:09PM
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Apparently there are a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
Re:Show HN: Pakhi – Bangla Programming Language
by ahamez on Saturday March 06, 2021 @01:57PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Well there is Citrine: https://citrine-lang.org/ - it offers a specialized version for over 110 human languages.