Latin American techies want to make Spanish the primary language of programming
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I wonder what could be the best human language to use for a programming language, including any ancient language. Maybe Sanskrit or something even more logical than English?
I don't know which language would be good in terms of conciseness and preciseness... But would probably need to be a language easily expressible with the ASCII character set.
It seems to me that the latter is a much bigger problem for Spanish. Programming languages have relatively few keywords. I imagine English keywords might be a big problem for people who doesn't know the latin alphabet though.
You could use "otro" (=another, =different) also, that is even shorter, has the advantage of being a single word instead two, and is used routinely in dichotomic keys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...