Arbitrary abbreviations in phobos considered ridiculous

[Marco Leise]

Am 09.03.2012, 01:07 Uhr, schrieb Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a>:

> But yea, it would be interesting to see a langauge that was based on
> something very different. A German-based one would be fun.

Has been done: http://www.ph-ludwigsburg.de/fileadmin/subsites/2e-imix-t-01/user_files/logo/befehld.pdf
(A beginner's language that evolved around "turtle graphics")

> Or even better,
> something that doesn't use the Latin alphabet, like Japanese or Hebrew or
> Russian. Or Swahili (which is an awesome-sounding language). Designing/using
> an Arabic (right-to-left, IIRC) programming language would be a great
> mind-fuck.

You are free too use Hebrew, Cyrillic or Arabic characters for your identifiers right now. Only the keywords and druntime/Phobos would remain English:

	int main()
	{
		int العربية = 42; // <- I really love this mind-fuck !!!
		return العربية;
	}

> Heh one of us should hack up DMD to produce a NihonD, using (or
> at least allowing) kanji instead of the kanas wherever appropriate :) That'd
> be both fun to make and to use.