IvarTJ on An Interview with Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto

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While I can't read much of any CJK languages, I am interested in seeing code samples from these Chinese and Japanese programming languages.

Anyone know where to look? What obstacles or advantages does the character sets give these languages?

m_for_monkey 13y

http://www.chinesepython.org/english/english.html

A simple Python program:

  import sys
  filenames = sys.argv[1:]
  
  def fixline(filename):
       text = open(filename).read()
       text = text.replace('\n\r','\n')
       return text

  for file in filenames:
       print fixline(file)

and its translation:

  載入 系統
  文件名 = 系統.參數[1:]

  定義 修正行尾(文件):
       內文 = 打開(文件名).讀入()
       內文 = 內文.替換('\n\r','\n')
       傳回 內文

  取 文件 自 文件名:
       寫 修正行尾(文件)

Surio 13y

Well, I ever! Didn't even realise something like this is even possible! :O

Is it the same for Cyrillic or German or Spanish for that matter?

Blown. Away.

Tyrant505 13y

This is of course interesting. I have thought about this before: But wouldn't it be more interesting to use (say the orient) language's mindset to set, embedded into the language at its core?

nbaksalyar 13y

For instance, check 'Chinese Python' samples [1].

Besides CJK, there are several programming languages that based on non-English languages [2]. A few ones are even widely used in industry.

[1] http://www.chinesepython.org/doc/sample/ask.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_l...

evilduck 13y

I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean by "code sample from these languages", but Ruby's source has plenty of code contributed from all over the world https://github.com/ruby/ruby

If you're talking about code written in non-English languages, Peter Cooper has a fun article about writing Ruby code in UTF-8: http://www.rubyinside.com/the-split-is-not-enough-whitespace...

alanctgardner2 13y

This is right up there with naming functions in Emoji. There are a few in my current codebase that could be gladly replaced with beers, martinis, etc.

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