Non English based programming languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_languages

by hydrolox • 4 years ago

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gumby• 4 years ago

I would be interested in programming languages that exhibited abstractions or metaphors that reflected the human language they were written in (or at least its culture).

The Western musical model (well tempered scale, etc) is prevalent worldwide but other musical approaches are still quite strong and doing well.

But I don't see that in this wikipedia entry. Could programming be so mathematical that all languages use the same metaphors, rather than ones somehow specifically entangled with English? I only speak indo-european languages so I have a hard time imagining truly "foreign" programming approaches.

hydrolox• 4 years ago

also they're all modeled after English ones or at least from standards set that English languages followed (from what I saw).

karmakaze• 4 years ago

In looking up some unconventional languages, I found Befunge[0].

Befunge is a two-dimensional stack-based, reflective, esoteric programming language. It differs from conventional languages in that programs are arranged on a two-dimensional grid. "Arrow" instructions direct the control flow to the left, right, up or down, and loops are constructed by sending the control flow in a cycle. It has been described as "a cross between Forth and Lemmings".
The language was originally created by Chris Pressey in 1993 for the Amiga, as an attempt to devise a language which is as hard to compile as possible. Note that the p command allows for self-modifying code. Nevertheless, a number of compilers have subsequently been written. A number of extensions to the original "Befunge-93" specification also exist, most notably Funge-98, which extends the concept to an arbitrary number of dimensions and can be multithreaded, with multiple instruction pointers operating simultaneously on the same space. Befunge-extensions and variants are called Fungeoids or just Funges.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge

Non English based programming languages

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