Sudhanwa wrote: > Are we talking about something like this? > http://vidagdha.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/programming_in_marathi/
That looks interesting. I had earlier heard of Marathi BASIC http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?17000000037039 However, Hindawi is not really just one programming language. We define it as complete in a very programming language sense; i.e. it is completely bootstrappable, or can be written in Hindawi set of languages itself. Hindawi provides assembly, C, lex and yacc. This combination can be used to implement any other programming language. Ref http://www.hindawi.in/en_US/faq.php There are many other factors already mentioned in my mail earlier today "Mother tongue based programming languages", please also read that, if you have already not done so. For instance one interesting component of Hindawi is a FOSS replacement of the GIST card, that is completely software based and does not use graphics mode to simulate text mode for Indic scripts. > IIRC, one of my friend Somesh (http://guruvision.in) had written > complete C programming (I think using turbo C interface) way back in > 2001. ... http://blog.guruvision.in/?page_id=6 Again this is very interesting. Please do provide us with more information about this. The Sakaal article is not very detailed. I am interested in knowing what were the results like what all was localised - comments only, or also keywords; could variable names be used in Marathi; if yes then were there any restrictions; what about namespace pollution; could the Marathi C be translated back into traditional C (I assume yes); what was the level of compatibility with exisiting set of libraries? One very important question, that you have yourself mentioned is what is its current state? It will be great if you can convey my questions to Somesh. I believe there will be many others on this list interested in these answers, else I would have preferred to take it offline. Regards, Abhishek Choudhary MSc MA MA BBA Chartered IT Professional(UK) MBCS(UK) MIET(UK) MIEEE SrMCSI Pune, INDIA WWW: http://cognitist.com Email: Affiliations: AAAI, ACM, BCS, CogSci, CSI, IEEE (CS/ComSoc/NNS/RAS/SMCS/VTS), IET, INCOSE, SAE "From Assembly to Lisp in your mother tongue" http://hindawi.in _______________________________________________ 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/
