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One of my favorite online April Fools' gags from recent years was when it was announced Scala would become Skala and all of the keywords would switch to German [0]. `val` `var` and `def` would all keep their uniform length by becoming `unveränderliche`, `opportunistisch` and `verfahrensweise` :-) [0] https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2017/04/01/announcing-skala....
I used to think about this when I was a student. I could totally make a programming language in Thai. Surprisingly, one of the main issues that I thought of was a cultural one. Thais culturally don't use a single word to encapsulate complex meaning. We use a combination of words to capture that kind of meaning. Just to give an example: a taxi driver is 'human-drives-taxi' in Thai. A barber is 'tradeperson-cuts-hair'.…
Just like German. A fridge is a cold-cupboard, a car is a driving-thing, etc.
But While, if, else, for are concise words.
Programming languages and human languages are really not the same thing at all, unless maybe you consider some extreme outliers like AppleScript[1]. It seems like the choice of character set would make a bigger difference. Most of the today's popular languages would seem to be strongly impacted by making them compatible with code that is entirely in 7-bit ASCII. I don't know enough about other character encodings to…
The first thought that came to mind as I was writing this was: some kind of logographic APL. I don't actually know what such a thing would like, but I'm sure I wouldn't be able to read it.
One of my favorite online April Fools' gags from recent years was when it was announced Scala would become Skala and all of the keywords would switch to German [0]. `val` `var` and `def` would all keep their uniform length by becoming `unveränderliche`, `opportunistisch` and `verfahrensweise` :-) [0] https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2017/04/01/announcing-skala....
uwä (unveränderliche), swa (schwank), and vfw (verfahrensweise) ?
wer, var, def
Perl in Latin: https://metacpan.org/pod/Lingua::Romana::Perligata
I'd rather see a language with more math-like operator symbols (e.g. for-all, element-of, union, is-proper-subset, etc) and an accompanying keyboard.
I used to think about this when I was a student. I could totally make a programming language in Thai. Surprisingly, one of the main issues that I thought of was a cultural one. Thais culturally don't use a single word to encapsulate complex meaning. We use a combination of words to capture that kind of meaning. Just to give an example: a taxi driver is 'human-drives-taxi' in Thai. A barber is 'tradeperson-cuts-hair'.…
I used to think about this when I was a student. I could totally make a programming language in Thai. Surprisingly, one of the main issues that I thought of was a cultural one. Thais culturally don't use a single word to encapsulate complex meaning. We use a combination of words to capture that kind of meaning. Just to give an example: a taxi driver is 'human-drives-taxi' in Thai. A barber is 'tradeperson-cuts-hair'.…
I struggle to imagine that thai can't do similar extensions - inheritance maps directly onto the personal concept of ownership down (human) lineages, surely you have that?
Serious but weird suggestion, talk to a poet.