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This language has the potential to attract native Arabic speakers to programming who may not otherwise take any interest. And who knows what insights or new par
by gkfasdfasdf 7y ago
This language has the potential to attract native Arabic speakers to programming who may not otherwise take any interest. And who knows what insights or new paradigms they could bring. Lowering the barrier to entry to programming is a good thing.
- egdod 7y agoMany of them might well have wound up programming anyway. And so this language has the potential to shunt them off into a likely dead-end language. Although, yes, it might be a “gateway drug” kind of thing where they wind up learning more mainstream languages as well. I’m just saying it’s not an obvious and unalloyed win.
- gkfasdfasdf 7y agoIs scratch a dead-end language? It's not used for anything production grade, and it can't be modified in vi because it requires a gui of all things! Yet millions of children (and adults) learn about programming through scratch and create amazing things. It is not a dead-end language.