Random thought: Are there any localized programming languages? For example, in Haskell, we have the Bool datatype with the constructors True and False. Could we have a mapping from some underlying representation of that to automatically derive the Bool datatype with constructors ನಿಜ and ಸುಳ್ಳು in Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ)? Or Verdad and Falso in Español? Etc etc etc...
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@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/
@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
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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