international language support
I think that one thing that would help to popularize
euphoria would be international language support.
When I talk to people here about Euphoria - which
is pretty often - they are interested, but are put off
by the english. So would I be if I had to program in
german, say, or chinese or something. So I thought
that it might be a 'simple thing' to write a preprocessor
that would substitute the keywords, builtin commands,
and common library routines from one language to
another. A simple list something like:
{{"end","fim"},
{"include","incluir"},
{"to","ate"},
{"by","por"},
{"exit","sair"},
{"type","tipo"},
{"constant","constante"},
{"for","para"},
{"while","enquanto"}} etc.
This would allow a portuguese programmer to write
code in his native language. The preprocessor would
look for these words and substitute them for the english
equivalent then run the program.
The list could be an include file, that could be replaced
by any other language that you would care to. French
Russian, Arabic, Swahili, Malay. etc.
OK. The problem is the word 'simple'. Simple for some
but I'm not up to it. Does anybody else think this is a
good idea and does anybody want to tackle It? I've got
the translation/substitution list for Portuguese (one of the
top ten spoken languages in the world) if anybody would
like to try.
Or maybe its already been done and I just didn't find it,
in which case, inform me please.
JOHN
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