I have been thinking about writing my own programming language in Spanish, but I'm wondering if it's even worth it.<p>What are the most popular non-English languages that you like?
As engineers I think we can all see the benefits of having a standard language to back keywords.<p>I mean, culturally it's nice to have many languages throughout the world but imagine how easier everything would be if everybody on the planet spoke the same language. Now imagine if you had to relearn the name of "true", "false", "if", "for", etc. each time you change language… Bonkers.<p>Anectdote: As a non native speaker myself, I learned to use the while loop before I knew what the word "while" meant. The subset of English words used in programming can be learned pretty quickly.<p>So, yes, it is not worth it IMHO. For better or worse, English is the way to go.
Altough I'm not sure it counts as programming language but Excell's functions are definitely localized. While I can see the benefit for a less computer literate audience, I always find myself struggling when switching from an english Office installation to a localized one. I would strongly recommend against does this.
To native English speakers: How likely is it that you would have become a developer if all code was written in Chinese (or pick another language with glyphs that you don't even recognize)? Would you have become a web user if URLs were in Chinese?<p>What would be the size of the population of developers in the U.S., relative to today, if all code was written in Chinese?
1C:Enterprise Programming Language is pretty popular in CIS countries. It is high level, looks like Visual Basic but has Russian syntax. Sample: [1]. Not something I like, just a popular language I'm aware of.
Cannot say whether it's worth it. I guess it depends on what exactly you're trying to achieve.<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/r98WGEM.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/r98WGEM.jpg</a>
It may end up as an esoteric programming language, and that is not a bad thing..<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language</a>