Re: Internationalization of Lua

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2016-11-21 19:53 GMT+02:00 Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@googlemail.com>:
> Wouldn't localisation actually hinder learning the (programming) language
> via code reading. Lets say I learn lua in Gujarati and want to learn from
> someone else's existing code only to find that it is written in the Chinese
> lua. I wouldn't stand a chance, my ability to learn would be severely
> diminished by my need to learn a dozen human languages just to be able to
> read the code.
>
> Maybe we should go the MUMPS way and have one letter commands (I am
> seriously not serious about this) or the APL way and have characters that
> nobody can type (except maybe the Greeks).

I can type them (but I'm a Linux user, so I suppose that does not count).