[HN Gopher] Citrine: Localized Programming Language
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       Citrine: Localized Programming Language
        
       Author : MindGods
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2020-07-18 21:36 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (citrine-lang.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (citrine-lang.org)
        
       | haolez wrote:
       | This actually looks cool! Besides the "localized" stuff, it
       | borrows some good parts from Smalltalk, JavaScript and Lisp. I'm
       | curious now.
        
       | stepstop wrote:
       | This is cool! Has anyone here taken a computer science course in
       | another language?
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       | I have wondered if non-English-speaking universities have to
       | teach their CS courses in 25-50% English, just due to the syntax
       | of the programming languages generally being in English
        
         | LukaszWiktor wrote:
         | I took a CS course in Polish and had no problem at all with
         | programming languages syntax in English.
        
       | lifthrasiir wrote:
       | I've said too much about this subject in the past [1], but my
       | litmus test for "localized" programming languages is a Korean
       | support (both because I speak it natively and because it is very
       | much different from most Indo-European languages). It
       | spectacularly fails. At the very least it is evident that Citrine
       | only ever cares about languages with prepositions (e.g. `x on:
       | 'greet:' do: { ... }`).
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       | [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21352775
        
       | scoopertrooper wrote:
       | > designed to allow every man to write code in his mother tongue.
       | Hopefully, by doing so, Citrine will make coding accessible to a
       | wider audience.
       | 
       | One day that audience might extend to women.
        
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