Bill et al.: I was poking around in Slashdot's interviews section a couple of weeks ago. Definitely not BrainFuck. Not for kids of *any* primary language. And NOT because of the language's name, either ;-)
Judy http://revined.blogspot.com On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Bill Marriott <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
