قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
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Re: قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
#2Scala supports Unicode characters in identifiers. It would be interesting to know your take on that.
Re: قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
#3Oh, it's just an art project.
We haven't yet seen a serious non-English programming language. One would have expected one in Chinese or Japanese by now. There was COBOL in French, once, with French words and word order, but it never caught on, even in Francophone countries.
Re: قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
#4Oh, it's just an art project. We haven't yet seen a serious non-English programming language. One would have expected one in Chinese or Japanese by now. There was COBOL in French, once, with French words and word order, but it never caught on, even in Francophone countries.
> Oh, it's just an art project.
Little dismissive don't you think. I get your point, but don't undervalue this project.
Re: قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
#5Oh, it's just an art project. We haven't yet seen a serious non-English programming language. One would have expected one in Chinese or Japanese by now. There was COBOL in French, once, with French words and word order, but it never caught on, even in Francophone countries.
A translator that takes say C code written in a non-English language and spits out ASCII C (except for variable/function names) ought to be simple.
Re: قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
#6Retrofitting an existing language with flexible syntax (in this case, LISP) to non-English languages is relatively easy. They are not necessarily bad and can be useful for learners and casual users, but deviating from ASCII alone doesn't remove a cultural bias as the OP states. Programming languages have to be developed from scratch to fit to other spoken languages and cultures in my opinion. I'm aware of multiple (non-esoteric [1]) languages in this direction, none satisfactory enough though.
[1] If we allow esolangs I would proudly present Aheui (https://esolangs.org/wiki/Aheui) as a good example.
Re: قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
#7Oh, it's just an art project. We haven't yet seen a serious non-English programming language. One would have expected one in Chinese or Japanese by now. There was COBOL in French, once, with French words and word order, but it never caught on, even in Francophone countries.
1C is popular programming language in Russian.
Re: قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
#8Oh, it's just an art project. We haven't yet seen a serious non-English programming language. One would have expected one in Chinese or Japanese by now. There was COBOL in French, once, with French words and word order, but it never caught on, even in Francophone countries.
> Oh, it's just an art project. Little dismissive don't you think. I get your point, but don't undervalue this project.
Well, it was done for an art collective and displayed in a museum... it is at least an art project.
Re: قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
#9Oh, it's just an art project. We haven't yet seen a serious non-English programming language. One would have expected one in Chinese or Japanese by now. There was COBOL in French, once, with French words and word order, but it never caught on, even in Francophone countries.
My SO works on a project with leeeeeegacy software that still uses an RDBMS/OS combination (yes, it's one product. don't remember the name) in French.
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Re: قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
#10I appreciate the idea behind this project. I assume that there is a potential in the subject of cognitive biases about programming.