If you’re from a non English speaking country, do you first have to learn English if you want to get into programming?

  • There’s always machine code, just writing numbers for the functions of the CPU. Or you have Esoteric programming languages like Brainfuck that doesn’t use any words at all, it’s just very simple instructions. There’s Piet, which is a pixel colour based programming language.

    To be frank; no programming languages are based on English, they are all based on logic. They are most often expressed in English, but there’s really no reason one couldn’t have a translation layer for every programming language. But that would make it a lot harder to find the solution if you have some fairly niche problem. Having everything in one language is simply more efficient since it doesn’t fragment the questions and answers.

    But a quick search gave me https://analyticsindiamag.com/6-popular-non-english-programming-languages/. The simple answer to your question thus is; No

    • All instruction sets are documented in English and it’s more esoteric so the tutorial scene in any non-English language is less developed, so that requires even more English skill than memorizing a couple of keywords in a mainstream language.

    •  hallettj   ( @hallettj@beehaw.org ) 
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      110 months ago

      The notion of programming languages that use non-word symbols reminds me that I want to try out Uiua. I guess it doesn’t exactly fit the non-English category because the recommended way to enter symbols is to type names that are derived from English, which are replaced by symbols by the formatter. But I suppose it would be easier than most languages to internationalize since words are used in an entry method, not in the shared code.