On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Guillermo J. Rozas <[email protected]> wrote: >> No, I just don't see what users have to do with it. Most of them >> still don't speak English anyway. > > Good luck learning Scheme or most other programming languages then.
How much time have you spent teaching non-English speakers programming languages? I've spent time both as a teacher and a student with people for whom English was not their first language, and while it's always disconcerting to me to hear English keywords pronounced strangely, it certainly doesn't mean that you have to know English to learn Scheme, or Pascal, or any other programming language. Scheme, in fact, makes it uniquely easy to rename the various identifiers at its core to be more suggestive in the native language of the student. I don't know if anyone's tried this, but surely we should make it easier, not harder, to try. -- sam th [email protected] _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
