On Tue, 15 May 2007 14:44:44 +0200, Anton Vredegoor wrote: > HYRY wrote: >>> - should non-ASCII identifiers be supported? why? >> Yes. I want this for years. I am Chinese, and teaching some 12 years >> old children learning programming. The biggest problem is we cannot use >> Chinese words for the identifiers. As the program source becomes >> longer, they always lost their thought about the program logic. > > That is probably because they are just entering the developmental phase > of being able to use formal operational reasoning. I can understand that > they are looking for something to put the blame on but it is an error to > give in to the idea that it is hard for 12 year olds to learn a foreign > language. You realize that children learn new languages a lot faster > than adults?
Children soak up new languages between the ages of about one and four. By 12, they're virtually adults as far as learning new languages. > Again, it's probably not the language but the formal logic they have > problems with. You have zero evidence for that, you're just applying your own preconceptions and ignoring what HYRY has told you. > Please do *not* conclude that some child is not very good > at math or logic or programming when they are slow at first. You're the one saying they're having problems with logic, not HYRY. He's saying they are having problems with English. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
