Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Behnel a écrit : >> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >>> but CS is english-speaking, period. >> >> That's a wrong assumption. > > I've never met anyone *serious* about programming and yet unable to > read and write CS-oriented technical English. > I don't believe that Python should be restricted to people *serious* about programming.
Recently there has been quite a bit of publicity about the One Laptop Per Child project. The XO laptop is just beginning rollout to children and provides two main programming environments: Squeak and Python. It is an exciting thought that that soon there will be millions of children in countries such as Nigeria, Brazil, Uruguay or Nepal[*] who have the potential to learn to program, but tragic if the Python community is too arrogant to consider it acceptable to use anything but English and ASCII. Yes, any sensible widespread project is going to mandate a particular language for variable names and comments, but I see no reason at all why they all have to use English. [*] BTW, I see OLPC Nepal is looking for volunteer Python programmers this Summer: if anyone fancies spending 6+ weeks in Nepal this Summer for no pay, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg04109.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
