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Is there any translation work I can do?
1 point by arch 5646 days ago | 4 comments
I am a Chinese, so I think I can help if there is some localization work (to Chinese) then I'd like to have a try. I like Lisp, so I like Arc also. My MSN is h-arc@hotmail.com, I am glad to be contacted.


2 points by aw 5646 days ago | link

There's the Arc tutorial: http://ycombinator.com/arc/tut.txt

Then there's the language itself... would it be helpful for people who only speak Chinese to be able to program using Chinese words instead of "for", "map", "list", "if", "and", "let" and so on?

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1 point by conanite 5646 days ago | link

Waiters in Paris generally assume I'm an English-speaking tourist (a reasonable bet), and hand me the translated English menu. They mean well, but "Preserved Duck with Potatoes Fried in Duck Grease" doesn't sound anything like the delicious meal it usually is. I fear a translated programming language might have the same icky feel. And it would be a lot harder to share code if keywords were translated. But the tutorial ... yay.

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2 points by aw 5646 days ago | link

I'm sure that Arc will always be better in the original. But to deny someone the pleasure of programming in Arc merely because they don't speak English seems... cruel :-)

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1 point by arch 5645 days ago | link

For localization, I mean only the documents, not the programming language(ARC) itself. Sorry for my misleading post.

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