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Ah, I think I see the confusion. In the linked article it talks about whether the code itself can include non-western digits. That's distinct from whether it ca
by n4r9 1y ago
Ah, I think I see the confusion. In the linked article it talks about whether the code itself can include non-western digits. That's distinct from whether it can handle strings or render text containing non-western digits.
- moi2388 1y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_languages https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programmin...
- n4r9 1y agoIt's great that those languages exist. But that doesn't refute that mainstream PL design is linguistically narrow. Even the languages in that article are mostly monolingual, whereas the author is envisioning multilingual languages.