[HN Gopher] Wenyan-lang: Classical Chinese Programming Language
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       Wenyan-lang: Classical Chinese Programming Language
        
       Author : yread
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2020-02-01 21:34 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | 5- wrote:
       | See also: Perl in Classical Chinese in Perl:
       | https://metacpan.org/pod/Lingua::Sinica::PerlYuYan
        
       | yorwba wrote:
       | The syntax is slightly cumbersome. For example, the function
       | header of the mandelbrot snippet at https://wenyan-
       | snippets.netlify.com/ reads:
       | 
       | Wu You Yi Shu . Ming Zhi Yue [Man De Bo ] . Yu Xing Shi Shu . Bi
       | Xian De Er Shu . Yue [Kuan ] . Yue [Gao ] . Nai Xing Shi Shu Yue
       | .
       | 
       | Decomposed:
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       | Wu You Yi Shu . I have a function.
       | 
       | Ming Zhi Yue [Man De Bo ] .  Named "mandelbrot".
       | 
       | Yu Xing Shi Shu . Bi Xian De  Who wants to run this function,
       | must first get
       | 
       | Er Shu . two numbers.
       | 
       | Yue [Kuan ] . Called "width".
       | 
       | Yue [Gao ] . Called "height"
       | 
       | Nai Xing Shi Shu Yue .  Then run this function as follows:
       | 
       | Essentially, what gets expressed using punctuation in mainstream
       | programming languages is instead described by a short sentence.
       | This would be terribly verbose in English, but it's kind of
       | bearable in Classical Chinese, because each word is only a single
       | character.
        
         | Guthur wrote:
         | Your description reminds me of Cobol.
        
         | umvi wrote:
         | I'm super glad programming languages were invented in a country
         | with an alphabet.
         | 
         | Imagine if the computing revolution were in China instead of
         | USA... we might all be coding using Chinese characters instead
         | of Latin characters right now.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Two recent related threads:
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21840924
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21840101
       | 
       | Also https://medium.com/syncedreview/cmu-senior-develops-
       | worlds-f... via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21864706
       | (but no comments there).
        
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