Looking for ugly code comparisons

[Judy Perry]

Bill et al.:

I was poking around in Slashdot's interviews section a couple of weeks ago.
Definitely not BrainFuck.  Not for kids of *any* primary language.  And NOT
because of the language's name, either ;-)

Judy
http://revined.blogspot.com

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Bill Marriott <wjm at wjm.org> wrote:

> François,
>
> > I think you missed the point. Kids are not in business or technology.
> > They are in childhood.
>
> I agree it would be nice if kids could learn to program computers in their
> native tongue. I was curious about this so I poked around on Google a
> little
> bit and found:
>
> http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Non:English:based:programming:languages.htm
>
> An excerpt:
> ==========
>
> Known non-English-based programming languages:
>
> Brainfuck - Minimalist programming language, created for the purpose of
> having a compiler fit in < 256 bytes (category 3)
>
> FOCAL - Introduced in 1968 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)'s Richard
> Merrill (and derived from JOSS) ¹  (category 2)
>
> HPL - Hebrew Programming Language (category 1)
>
> hForth - A Forth system with an optional Korean keyword set
>
> Lexico - A Spanish language based object-oriented, educational programming
> language based on the. NET Framework.
>
> PILOT - a Computer Aided Instruction language, somewhat similar to LOGO
> (category 3)
>
> Plankalkül - Developed by German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse, who claimed
> to have developed it in the 1940s (category 1)
>
> Var'aq - Based on the Klingon constructed language for television series
> Star Trek  (category 4)
> ==========
>
> Now, which of these do you think is better than Revolution for teaching
> programming to young children? The Klingon one?
>
>
>
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