Isn't it all unicode at the end of the day, so it supports anything unicode supports? Or am I off base?
Yes, but the language/compiler defines which characters are allowed in variable names.
I thought the most mode sane and modern language use the unicode block identification to determine something can be used in valid identifier or not. Like all the 'numeric' unicode characters can't be at the beginning of identifier similar to how it can't have '3var'.
So once your programming language supports unicode, it automatically will support any unicode language that has those particular blocks.
Thank you for this cursed knowledge.
May I introduce you to emojicode...
A little LESS chaotically, you can use emojis to name objects in Blender now... Which, I dunno, could be kinda fun in the right doses.
This picture had me progressively laughing harder as it progressed though LOL.
Let's hope Ea-nāṣir's code is better than his copper.
I hear it's prone to Rust.
Ea Nasir over here selling subpar code now
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ObscurityAntiquityThanks, I hate it
Don't you mean 𒁷𒀱𒀉?
Unironically awesome. You can debate if it hurts the ability to contribute to a project, but folks should be allowed to express themselves in the language they choose & not be forced into ASCII or English. Where I live, English & Romantic languages are not the norm & there are few programmers since English is seen as a perquisite which is a massive loss for accessibility.
The hotter take: languages like APL, BQN, & Uiua had it right building on symbols (like we did in math class) for abstract ideas & operations inside the language, where you can choose to name the variables whatever makes sense to you & your audience.
Yeah. Tbh, I always wondered why programming languages weren't translated.
I know CS is all about english, but at least the default builtin functions of programming languages could get translated (as well as APIs that care about themselves).
Like, I can't say I don't like it this way (since I'm a native english speaker), but I still wonder what if you could translate code.
Variables could cause problems (more work with translation or hard to understand if not translated). But still - programming languages have no declentions and syntax is simpler so it shouldn't even compare to "real" languages with regards to difficulty of implementation.
I'm German, and I would not want that. German grammar works differently in a way that makes programming a lot more awkward for some reason. Things like, ".forEach" would technically need three different spellings depending on the grammatical gender of the type of element that's in the collection it's called on. Of course you could just go with neuter and say it refers to the "items" in the collection, but that's just one of lots of small pieces of awkwardness that get stacked on top of each other when you try to translate languages and APIs. I really appreciate how much more straightforward that works with English.
Programs aren’t written by a single team of developers that speak the same language. You’d be calling a library by a Hungarian with additions from an Indian in a framework developed by Germans based on original work by Mexicans.
If no-one were forcing all of them to use English by only allowing English keywords, they’d name their variables and functions in their local language and cause mayhem to readability.
[Edit:] Even with all keywords being forced to English, there’s often half-localized code.
I can’t find the source right now, but I strongly believe that Steve McConnell has a section in one of his books where he quotes a function commented in French and asks, “Can you tell the pitfall the author is warning you about? It’s something about a NullPointerException”. McConnell then advises against local languages even in comments
Excel functions are translated. This leads to being pretty much locked out of any support beyond documentation if your system language isn't English.
Honestly it wouldn't even be that hard to release full translated versions of existing programming languages. Like Python in Punjabi or Kotlin in Chinese or something (both of which already support unicode variable/class/function names). Just have a lookup table to redefine each keyword and standard library name to one in that language, it can literally just be an additional translation layer above the compiler/interpreter that converts the code to the original English version.
It's honestly really surprising that non-English speakers have developed entirely new programming languages in their own language (unfortunately none of which are getting very widespread use even among speakers of that language), but the practice of simply translating a widely used and industry standard English programming language doesn't seem to be much of a thing.
If I ever make my own programming language, I'm probably going to bake multi-language support into the compiler. Just supply it with a lookup table of translated terms and the code in that language.
Isn't unicode support for programming not something new? I've seen a lot of code using Cyrillic or Chinese characters.
Inside of strings or comments or as an encoding is close to universal now, but for wide support for operators & variable names I would generally it isn’t. Some languages straight up do not support non ASCII like OCaml, others only support bicameral scripts like PureScript, but others like JavaScript can support Unicode for variable names but doesn’t support defining infix operators or uses Unicode for any existing operators. Raku is probably the most Unicode-friendly language, & some of the mathier ones like Agda as well.
now that's job security
This is how we end up with snow crash.
Still more readable than APL
Iltam sumra rashupti ilatimmoment 🗿Wtf I just said these words out loud and the furniture started floating o.o
https://www.soas.ac.uk/baplar/recordings/ammi-ditanas-hymn-istar-read-k-hecker
So i guess iltam = goddess and ilatim = gods?
litta = praise be (to), zumrā = sing of and rašubti = fearsome being?
Bro thats fucking amazing 😂
I don't know much about coding, but I know Cuneiform isn't an alphabet.
It really bugs me when people don't comment their code at all. I have no idea what this is supposed to do.
Duh
Because it supports Unicode as variable/class/function names and Unicode includes all the characters humans have ever used, even dead languages (I assume for historians to digitize ancient texts?)
So we can automate spell glyphs now?
Terry Pratchett was ahead of his time.
Sexigesimal is the best numbering system, change my mind
You can't trick me, I know a bullet hell when I see one.
