On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Parthan SR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, this thread I have been really entertaining to sit back and watch. > But this is growing out to be something which serves no purpose. Here > are my few thoughts, though wishing this thread will close soon. > > The idea of Coding in Native Languages is not new, a lot of people have > spoken and may be few even tried one in nook and corners of the world. I > even remember a similar topic running in one of the Indian GNU/Linux > Mailing List a few years ago. >
Most of the languges are very close cousin of english so never came across some diff langage code, Would love to see some pointer. > If such a system is possible and being developed, what might be of > concern is how compatible is it with other systems. We, as one amongst > the FOSS community, ought to think about developing softwares which can > be applied in a wide scope (except in case of specialized softwares > targeting a specific group of people). This means, we need to have a > facility to code in FOO programming language in BAR native language, but > being able to compile this code or transform this code into FOOBAR > native language. To put it simply, if A writes a Python code in Hindi, > there should be a cross-compiler or such thing which B can use to > convert the Python code into Tamil or Malayalam so that people in those > languages can improve the code, which A can take back and compile it > into Hindu. Here, the concerned Programming Language remains the same > Python and hence the programmatic idioms and practices remains the > same.Thus, even when people work in their own languages, the code is > fully compatible between languages, while the main Programming Language > being followed is the same. > Nice thoughts, It`s indeed very much possible , Hindawi AFAIk is a wrapper over current compiler . (Hope Abhisek can join in and clarify) , So a universal wrapper which can convert between languages doesn`t seems impossible. -- Thanks and Regards Gaurav Mishra Linux User #348873 http://gauravmishra.info/blog "When i can run , i will run , When i can walk , i will walk, When i can crawl , i will crawl. But i will not stop moving forward" _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
