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Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language

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Post by jjuliano » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 1:05 PM UTC

Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language
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Re: Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language

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Post by petepete » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 1:57 PM UTC

Is it just Ruby with Filipino words?

Re: Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language

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Post by murph-almighty » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 2:07 PM UTC

petepete wrote: post #2

Is it just Ruby with Filipino words?

Even if it is, this might be the first time I've seen a programming language that isn't based in English (aside from the more esoteric Brainfuck-esque languages for code golfing).

Re: Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language

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Post by perfmode » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 2:08 PM UTC

petepete wrote: post #2

Is it just Ruby with Filipino words?

A language with Internationalized keywords would be pretty dope.

Re: Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language

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Post by AugustJok » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 2:13 PM UTC

perfmode wrote: post #4

petepete wrote: post #2

Is it just Ruby with Filipino words?

A language with Internationalized keywords would be pretty dope.

What would be the point though? I feel like that would only increase misunderstandings . Like searching for documentation or help online on that function.

Re: Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language

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Post by nuclearcookie » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 2:13 PM UTC

perfmode wrote: post #4

petepete wrote: post #2

Is it just Ruby with Filipino words?

A language with Internationalized keywords would be pretty dope.

That's what they do with formulas in Excel. There it sucks HARD. Try googling for documentation on StackOverflow for example. Anything you want to copy paste doesn't work because Excel is expecting the commands in a different language.

Re: Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language

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Post by wyclif » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 2:14 PM UTC

petepete wrote: post #2

Is it just Ruby with Filipino words?

In the Philippines here. I'm a native English speaker and my Tagalog is pretty bad, but it looks like it's Ruby with Filipino syntax.

Re: Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language

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Post by supergreg » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 2:14 PM UTC

murph-almighty wrote: post #3

petepete wrote: post #2

Is it just Ruby with Filipino words?

Even if it is, this might be the first time I've seen a programming language that isn't based in English (aside from the more esoteric Brainfuck-esque languages for code golfing).

I've seen a couple of Spanish versions of Python out there, just novelties, never seen them move beyond a proof of concept. There's a whole bunch of esoteric programming languages that don't use English, just like Brainfuck. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_languag...

Re: Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language

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Post by pjmlp » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 2:16 PM UTC

murph-almighty wrote: post #3

petepete wrote: post #2

Is it just Ruby with Filipino words?

Even if it is, this might be the first time I've seen a programming language that isn't based in English (aside from the more esoteric Brainfuck-esque languages for code golfing).

Back in the 80's there were a few variants of Basic and Pascal in Portuguese.

Re: Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language

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Post by domenukk » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 2:17 PM UTC

petepete wrote: post #2

Is it just Ruby with Filipino words?

Esperanto would be nice