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JavaScript For the Rest of Us

Posted by timothy on from the error-messages-go-universal dept.

First time accepted submitter my2iu writes "The JavaScript programming language is both widely available and very powerful. Unfortunately, since only 6% of the world's population are native English speakers, the other 94% of the world are forced to learn English before they can start using JavaScript. Babylscript is an open source project that aims to translate JavaScript to all the world's languages, including French, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic. The project has recently completed its 12th translation, enough so that the native languages of over 50% of the world's population are now supported!"

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  1. Oh non ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    C'est pas vrai!

  2. Re:Forced to learn English to learn Javascript?! by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Luckily, all human languages are isomorphic, so we can just draw up an unambiguous list of localized equivalents to each keyword, allow automated localization of javascript code without any possible ambiguity! What could possibly go wrong or undermine this glorious scheme?

    (Other than comments, variable names, and the fact that languages are far from isomorphic?)

  3. Javascript was better ... by Infernal+Device · · Score: 4, Funny

    in the original Klingon.

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  4. Re:VBA? by VGPowerlord · · Score: 4, Funny

    2 tonnes = 4409.24 pounds.

    So, 2 tonnes is $6,927.02 at today's exchange rates?

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  5. Re:No by Rei · · Score: 3, Funny

    You need to learn keywords, they could be klingon, do not need to make any sense for you.

    Nonsense. "(car (cddr (cadr (car x))))" is a perfectly understandable English sentence.

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  6. Re:VBA? by Invisible+Agent · · Score: 3, Funny

    Actually, Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" reads much better in the original Klingon.

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