Re: Is Transcript's English orientation a plus or minus? (was Andy's comments and positioning...)

2004-02-09 Thread Geoff Canyon
I once heard that AppleScript was localizable into other languages -- French, I think. I even heard that they produced, but never released, a C dialect of AppleScript to make the serious programmers happy. ;-) regards, Geoff Canyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Feb 8, 2004, at 3:09 PM, Stephen Quinn

Is Transcript's English orientation a plus or minus? (was Andy's comments and positioning...)

2004-02-08 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, February 8, 2004, at 04:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - for non-english-speaking students, today, the javascript syntax = the flash syntax = the . syntax = the ECMA syntax = the standard syntax for programming = is not more difficult than the xtalk syntax. It is the same to teach

Re: Is Transcript's English orientation a plus or minus? (was Andy's comments and positioning...)

2004-02-08 Thread Stephen Quinn Barncard
I imagine it would be a nightmare to 'localize' the syntax to French, Germanand prone to more bugs... it's human nature... Though I like the syntax for my own use and for teaching junior associates (it does help), I think the English orientation might be somewhat of a weakness in an