François, > I think you missed the point. Kids are not in business or technology. > They are in childhood.
I agree it would be nice if kids could learn to program computers in their native tongue. I was curious about this so I poked around on Google a little bit and found: http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Non:English:based:programming:languages.htm An excerpt: ========== Known non-English-based programming languages: Brainfuck - Minimalist programming language, created for the purpose of having a compiler fit in < 256 bytes (category 3) FOCAL - Introduced in 1968 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s Richard Merrill (and derived from JOSS) ¹ (category 2) HPL - Hebrew Programming Language (category 1) hForth - A Forth system with an optional Korean keyword set Lexico - A Spanish language based object-oriented, educational programming language based on the. NET Framework. PILOT - a Computer Aided Instruction language, somewhat similar to LOGO (category 3) Plankalkül - Developed by German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse, who claimed to have developed it in the 1940s (category 1) Var'aq - Based on the Klingon constructed language for television series Star Trek (category 4) ========== Now, which of these do you think is better than Revolution for teaching programming to young children? The Klingon one? _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
