Re: UTF-8 identifiers [was: Re: Lua t-shirts]

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> Aah, even if it is in my native language, I find it odd!
> Too used to English keywords...
> Note: at the time 8-bit computers were flourishing, there were French 
> dialects of Basic, eg. for Thomson's TO-7.

Je me souviens... er, I remember :-)
There was something in Italian too. I think the only survivor is 
probably Logo.

> But, on the other hand, there is only a handful of keywords to know
> (and some library words, although not necessarily in real English,
> see gsub!) and she learns quickly. So English is probably less an
> obstacle than the programming concepts themselves.

My Meccano had booklets in English and French, so before I was 6 I had 
learned just enough of both languages to follow instructions and build 
models (ah, the power of motivation...).
With a programming language it's even simpler: no grammar or syntax in a 
literary sense, just a very small set of words to recognize and know the 
(technical) meaning of.

  Enrico