-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ian Bicking wrote: > Alan Kay wrote: >> Some examples in Etoys of Multilingual programming. Besides the >> Japanese version shown here, some students in Japan have done a better >> one that also uses Japanese syntax (this turns out to help many young >> children, as one might expect). The Spanish one is particularly good >> as it has had the useful pressure of being used heavily in Spain. > > How possible is it to translate the code automatically (just to expose > the children to the English forms)? Logo doesn't really try to adapt to > any syntax, I think -- or maybe it just happens to be vaguely English > and I don't notice it. >
See thread at the bottom of http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Develop It's just not practical to translate language keywords. As I was telling Eben earlier, Develop will provide drag & drop (plus visual editing) of python classes and methods, so at least some of the syntax is abstracted away. - -- Regards, Andrew Clunis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF9xrbALkUMXSNow8RAngLAJ9MzeHILVxSQImQYg8pSgazmZaTyACfWWrn oPyyQY3RchrT22wEBcH7ALg= =JWkf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar
