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bkim
@bkim@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@chiraag yes, Excel!

@gretchenmcc has written an essay that stuck with me for a long while that we don't write "Javascript", we write "english Javascript". We definitely need more exploration on making localizable programming languages

https://www.wired.com/story/coding-is-for-everyoneas-long-as-you-speak-english/

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@bkim@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@chiraag yes, Excel!

@gretchenmcc has written an essay that stuck with me for a long while that we don't write "Javascript", we write "english Javascript". We definitely need more exploration on making localizable programming languages

https://www.wired.com/story/coding-is-for-everyoneas-long-as-you-speak-english/

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Curtis Carter
@codingcoyote@floss.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
@bkim @chiraag @gretchenmcc Keywords recognized by compilers should have locale specific equivalents and IDE's should support displaying them in a local language.

I'd even argue for a feature that allows giving #i18n style translation support for function names

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@chiraag@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Interestingly enough, Haskell may be flexible enough to implement this in the sense that we already have Core as the underlying language. All that would be needed is a mapping from those parsed tokens back to the same underlying representation of True and False.

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