Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language

Post by abrowne » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 7:01 PM UTC

drdaeman wrote: post #43

rb808 wrote: post #13

One thing I'm completely ignorant of is how to people from countries where non-latin alphabets are write code? Eg if you're Chinese, Arabic even Russian do you have to do everything in English and English characters? I'd hope there is a Unicode mapping into other characters - is there any language that supports this? Even for libraries would be nice.

Russian reporting in. I think everyone here who writes code knows Latin alphabet. It's just a basic requirement - it's a given that if you want to code you'd better learn English, let alone alphabet. In schools, kids learn to code using Algol-like language with identifiers in Cyrillic (essentially, Russian) abbreviations, e.g. "нц для i от 1 до n" rather than "for i := 1 until n do", but even here you see Latin lette…

Post by michaelterryio » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 7:26 PM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #85

tjwii wrote: post #75

There are already way too many languages on this planet being kept alive by all those pathetic governments limiting their citizens to their own (little) country. English should already long be the World's 1st language for every human being IMAO. I'm Dutch and it took me ages of struggling to get to my current level of English and I'm still learning.. So, this feels like a huge step back and a great way for Filipino d…

By the number of speakers, some form of Chinese would probably win hands down. In any case, Hindi and Spanish (the latter with arguably much more regular grammar and spelling) would still take over English.

Post by fiddlerwoaroof » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 7:33 PM UTC

badsectoracula wrote: post #72

andreasklinger wrote: post #26

Awesome stuff - i think this kind of languages are more important than most people (esp with strong english school background assume). I could see this as educational language for kids. Related to this: In the 80/90s i saw a German BASIC variant floating around. Unfortunately i couldnt find it online But… if you are into alternative-language programming languages i highly recommend you reading up on Plankalkül[1] - w…

> I could see this as educational language for kids. In Greece we had (and maybe still have, but it has been almost two decades since i was there) programming lessons in high school. For the most part it was laughable (and TBH almost everyone ignored them) but what i personally found interesting was that someone went and designed a Pascal+BASIC hybrid where everything is in Greek. There wasn't any official implementa…

Post by fiddlerwoaroof » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 7:34 PM UTC

fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #95

badsectoracula wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I could see this as educational language for kids. In Greece we had (and maybe still have, but it has been almost two decades since i was there) programming lessons in high school. For the most part it was laughable (and TBH almost everyone ignored them) but what i personally found interesting was that someone went and designed a Pascal+BASIC hybrid where everything is in Greek. There wasn't any official implementa…

It strikes me that in a language like Common Lisp, where the identifiers are not strings but symbols with a name, you could give the symbols a map from language->name and have the input language be nearly irrelevant: as long as it was standard practice to distribute source as serialized symbols rather than as text files.

    (defpackage :foo
      (:use :cl)
      (:source-language :en))
    (in-package :foo)

    (defun show (:translations :de schau) ()
      ...)

Post by pwaai » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 7:37 PM UTC