[sugar] Multilingual programming

[Andrew Clunis]

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Ian Bicking wrote:
> Alan Kay wrote:
>> Some examples in Etoys of Multilingual programming. Besides the
>> Japanese version shown here, some students in Japan have done a better
>> one that also uses Japanese syntax (this turns out to help many young
>> children, as one might expect). The Spanish one is particularly good
>> as it has had the useful pressure of being used heavily in Spain.
> 
> How possible is it to translate the code automatically (just to expose
> the children to the English forms)?  Logo doesn't really try to adapt to
> any syntax, I think -- or maybe it just happens to be vaguely English
> and I don't notice it.
> 

See thread at the bottom of http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Develop

It's just not practical to translate language keywords.

As I was telling Eben earlier, Develop will provide drag & drop (plus
visual editing) of python classes and methods, so at least some of the
syntax is abstracted away.

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Regards,
Andrew Clunis

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