From: Thomas Fini Hansen <beast@...>
Date: 2004-05-24T02:49:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] Ruby for educational purposes and localization

On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 10:43:47PM +0900, gabriele renzi wrote:
> il Sun, 23 May 2004 13:53:59 +0200, Laurent Julliard
> <laurent__no__@__spam__moldus.org> ha scritto::
> >
> >So I started to think about a way by which one could define "synonyms" 
> >for all Ruby reserved keywords in another language (e.g in French 
> >"while" would be "tantque", "do" becomes "faire", etc...). All this 
> >should be done while preserving the ability to require any existing 
> >Ruby module written in plain english.
> >
> >I would be happy to start a discussion on that topic and welcome any 
> >input on what the alternatives would be to do this?
> 
> have you thought about writing a dumb wrapper around ruby that just
> does a gsub!(/word/,'mot') of the script and then pipes it into the
> real ruby?

I'd suggest to just teach them the few words they need. Kids are quick
to pick things up, and it'll save them having to 'relearn' the
programming language later.

-- 
Thomas
beast@system-tnt.dk