Re: [fonc] Presenting my educational language (and a possibly interesting concept)

2012-04-30 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Mohamed Samy samy2...@gmail.com writes: Hi everyone, I've created an educational programming language (Arabic based) and now attempting to test it on some children in my family, talking with some schools...etc One of the major design directions for it was the concept of nested

Re: [fonc] OT? Polish syntax

2012-04-30 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Martin Baldan martino...@gmail.com writes: I have a little off-topic question. Why are there so few programming languages with true Polish syntax? I mean, prefix notation, fixed arity, no parens (except, maybe, for lists, sequences or similar). And of course, higher order functions. The only

Re: [fonc] Presenting my educational language (and a possibly interesting concept)

2012-04-30 Thread Mohamed Samy
Congratulations! AFAIK it's the first programming language in Arabic. Thanks! It's not the first Arabic PL but in my opinion the first practical one. The previous ones seem to be experiments... I would suggest to teach lisp (or scheme) to children. I have some ideas that I'd like to