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We can have human language translated code
1 point by peterio on June 5, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
Hi,

I was thinking about that. We can have programming language transl files with translation for all the keywords in different languages. Then we can automatically show code with english/french etc keywords. Do you think that's tecnically feasible?




I've seen the inverse case: A translation of a programming language to another human language.

I've saw a Spanish version of Pascal and a Spanish version of Logo, it was in Argentina approximately 20 years ago. They were versions for students.

The problem is that is nice that the user defined functions mix well with the core functions. If the language has the "print" function, you can add the "println" function. You can translate the core functions, but now the user defined functions look odd.




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