Show HN: Bato – A Filipino Programming Language

Post by pwaai » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 8:08 PM UTC

half-kh-hacker wrote: post #100

pwaai wrote: post #99

It's really interesting to see non-English languages being used as programming languages. I recall Aheui (아희) programming language that was posted on HN a while back. It's truly exotic. https://aheui.github.io/specification.en > 밤밣따빠밣밟따뿌 빠맣파빨받밤뚜뭏 돋밬탕빠맣붏두붇 볻뫃박발뚷투뭏붖 뫃도뫃희멓뭏뭏붘 뫃봌토범더벌뿌뚜 뽑뽀멓멓더벓뻐뚠 뽀덩벐멓뻐덕더벅 will print hello world according to the example. Reading it phonetically in Korean, makes no sense at all. If I knew ho…

I feel like using 니은 and 기윽 for your quotations limits you in terms of keywords quite a bit. AFAIK, in Korean, they use for their quotations.

Post by markoutso » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 8:38 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 sethrin » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 8:39 PM UTC

vidarh wrote: post #70

liveoneggs wrote: post #46

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in perl 6 you can quote strings in quite a few ways! https://docs.perl6.org/language/quoting "Quoting" is all defined inside of a sub-language called "Q"

Ruby has pretty much the same flexibility. "%" followed by almost any non-alphabetic character starts a quoted string. But most then become the quote character. If the quote character is at least ,),] or }. These are all equivalent: % %"x" %{x} %!x! Unfortunately the rules are loose enough that even space is a valid quote character. So this too is equivalent to the above: % x ("% x ")

Post by koenigdavidmj » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 9:17 PM UTC

lou1306 wrote: post #96

badsectoracula wrote: post #72

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> 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…

Neat! Now I just need to develop an Ancient Greek dialect of this ΓΛΩΣΣΑ, and then maybe Italian Liceo Classico high schools will finally have some coding classes...

Post by taserian » Fri, Jan 12, 2018, 9:21 PM UTC

munificent wrote: post #84

FredrikMeyer wrote: post #77

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I agree that the would already should have had a lingua franca, but I must say that it English is far from the best candidate. The language is huge, and the grammar is full of irregularities. Pronunciation must be learnt case by case (why are "women" pronounced "wee-men"?). (also recall this cute poem: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/english-lesson.htm... )

This is a common complaint, and one the purist in me is sympathetic to. These days, I have a more nuanced perspective on English. Yes, English is huge and complex. However, the things we are trying to express are themselves huge and complex. A big language gives us many many colors to paint with. I mean different things when I say I am "sad", "down", "blue", "disconsolate", or "woebegone". There is a learning burden…