Bato
Languages and libraries
programming language
SHOW HN2018
159points
123comments
#246of 2,155 in 2018
Top 12%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
4 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.
Idea: 3 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive effort, useful for educational use with kids
From 2 comments
The effort into this I must say (I speak as someone who came from the Philippines and knows the language by heart) is quite impressive. But for someone who is used to coding in…
AngeloAnolin on HNAwesome stuff - i think this kind of languages are more important than most people (esp with strong english school background assume). I could see this as educational language…
andreasklinger on HN
Objections
Non-English keywords may be harder for those used to English syntax
From 1 comment
The effort into this I must say (I speak as someone who came from the Philippines and knows the language by heart) is quite impressive. But for someone who is used to coding in…
AngeloAnolin on HN
Encourages non-English languages and works against English as a common language
From 1 comment
There are already way too many languages on this planet being kept alive by all those pathetic governments limiting their citizens to their own (little) country. English should…
tjwii on HN
Questions
Is it just Ruby with Filipino words?
From 1 comment
Is it just Ruby with Filipino words?
petepete on HN
Alternatives named
Other non-English programming languages such as GERMAN, Aheui, qalb (Arabic Lisp), and tampio (Finnish)
From 4 comments
Awesome stuff - i think this kind of languages are more important than most people (esp with strong english school background assume). I could see this as educational language…
andreasklinger on HNIt's really interesting to see non-English languages being used as programming languages. I recall Aheui (아희) programming language that was posted on HN a while back. It's truly…
pwaai on HNThis reminds me of http://nas.sr/%D9%82%D9%84%D8%A8/ (Lisp in Arabic(?))
amrnt on HNAnother natural language programming language (in Finnish): https://github.com/fergusq/tampio It's technically somewhat amusing as it runs a morphological parser in order to deal…
beevai142 on HN