Hi Floris,
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 23:33, Floris van Manen <v...@klankschap.nl> wrote:
> Localization of programming languages is a bad idea.
Do you have some more convincing evidence?
> If you have to learn a new language, switch context, never start
> translating.
Is switching context how you started learning English at school, for
example? I think not. In the end, switching context is probably needed
to become fluent.
Anyway, my aim was to teach kids programming, not a programming
language. So even pseudo-code would do, right? Python is appraised for
looking very much like pseudo-code (I don't have references at hand),
meaning there's almost no context switching needed, merely
translating. But programming in pseudo-code only isn't much fun. The
proof of the pudding is in the eating: you want to see a computer
perform the algorithm you feed it. It's only in that step where you
need a programming language.
> You don't want to write in fortran-python either.
I agree. But it's besides the point: you're assuming a context-switch
indeed. I was hoping to preserve the semantics and therefore was
proposing something like translating:
for item in my_list:
print my_item
into:
voor_elk ding in mijn_lijst:
toon ding
and not into:
doe_zolang_elk ding in mijn_lijst
toon ding
doe-einde
or whatever you implied...
Best regards,
Roger
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