Re: Internationalization of Lua

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Peter Hickman once stated:
> 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).

  You just need an APL keyboard.  I missed getting one by ten seconds (my
friend saw it first---sigh).  

  -spc (what makes the loss worse is that it was an IBM Model M ... )