[HN Gopher] Citrine: Localized Programming Language ___________________________________________________________________ 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? | | 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: { ... }`). | | [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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-07-18 23:00 UTC)