> A better test would be taking groups of English and non-English non-programmers, and teaching both of them entirely from scratch. In a way, we already have t

> A better test would be taking groups of English and non-English non-programmers, and teaching both of them entirely from scratch. In a way, we already have this test today. Most of the world's programmers are non-native speakers and, by and large, they learn programming languages where keywords are based on English. I've heard people thinking that language localization would be a cool thing, but I haven't heard anyone complain about it not being available. > Out of interest, is there any more public information of your work here? No, my comment is all the public info there is about it. My $.02, localizability wouldn't be what I would worry about for a proof-of-concept language.