>Also, if anyone knows about Bjorn's third question, what happens to
>left-to-right programming languages in a right-to-left culture, do please
>tell.
I don't recall seeing conceptual problems
with learning to program that can be attributed to RTL - even in high schools.
The reason might be that we are so used to seeing the combination:
for example, numbers within an RTL text are written LTR,
and LTR signs (English - or what passes for English ...) are extremely common.
There are serious practical difficulties in adapting software packages
to RTL languages, and learning to use the adaptations is extremely difficult.
Hopefully, we'll have something to say about this at the Workshop :-) .
Moti
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