Sí - A direct translation pseudo-language for coding in C and C++ with Spanish keywords. (from Wikipedia)
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Lua should be in Portuguese.
Python should be in snek.
Java should be in the infernal tongues. Or one of the many languages of Indonesia 🤷
Python is Parsel
true
#incluir usando nombres std;
int main(vacío) {
ca « “¡Hola, mundo!” « terml;
volver 0;
}
entero principal(vacío)
Gracias, lo odio (we don't really say that one in spanish tho)
Gracias, lo odio (we don’t really say that one in spanish tho)
... supongo la variante coloquial seria "me da asco"?
Pienso que sí, siempre lo digo. Pero también me gusta decir cosas así como “¿qué sabo?” 😭
“¿qué sabo?” 😭
cual region es eso? "hablo" rioplatense.
Mi propio accento
Si let's you shoot yourself in the foot. Si++ let's you reuse the bullet.
"Sí más más!" sounds dirty.
As someone who dated a Colombian, can confirm. Add a que rico after that and you'd basically be coding in porn
you’d basically be coding in porn
Promise?
If I could, I'd throw a chancla at that person
Translated to C++, that would be a destructor call.
Apparently there is at least one called Latino (I had already looked into this many years ago and I think I had found a different one)
A fun problem I always thought would appear is that "if" is translated as "si" but "yes" is also translated as "si" which, while not really a problem, could cause confusion to newcomers as to what the keyword does. I say not really a problem because it should use "verdadero" ("true") instead of "si"(" yes"), but it might be confusing anyway
Si (miVariable === verdadero)
They are actually different. Yes has the accent.
Si = if
Sí = yes
Yeah... Accents are a pain.
They are also a pain to type. Where I live there are 2 keyboard layouts: Spanish and Latin. 99% of people don't know how to tell them apart which means that their hardware keyboard does not match the setting on the computer, so the label on the keyboard does not match with what is typed. There are also two accents in the keyboard: á, and à which are hard to distinguish one the key starts rubbing off.
All of this means that a lot of people don't even know how to type an accent, and a lot of us never remember when we should be typing them anyway
On top of that this (programming) language, doesn't even support them. Probably because they cause a lot of encoding issues
you just hold alt and press the letter, por que te parece tan dificil?
Btw, it's "difícil". With an accent
sí , claro, pero tengo dos excusas; estamos charlando nomás y soy extranjero.
Excusa bono : mis ojos son malissimos, asi es dificil a ver los acentos tambien.
Ninguna de las dos excusas es técnicamente valida por dos motivos:
- que seas extranjero que habla español quiere decir que probablemente aprendiste el idioma de grande, osea que tenés las reglas del idioma en la memoria. Yo lo aprendí cuando tenia 7 años.
- todos tienen el mismo problema con las teclas de tilde. Encima entre el teclado español y latinoamericano cambia su ubicación
(soy de argentina y la mayoría del tiempo usamos el vos en lugar del tú)
(soy de argentina y la mayoría del tiempo usamos el vos en lugar del tú)
somos rioplantenses, asi yo tambien uso voseo. mis condolencías por tu situacíon con el loco con motosierra.
Speaking anything other than English is against community rules. I had fun but your comments might get deleted or maybe temp banned
Speaking anything other than English is against community rules.
this thread is entrapment.
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Nope. That is not how that works
dale intento con altgr
On my linux at home it types "æ". But I'll try tomorrow on windows
On my Linux at home it types nothing but if I press the I key again I get î. I can also do ê, â, ô and û this way.
US Intl Macintosh layout.
What keyboard layout do you have? Both physically and virtually
Didn't work
If your language specifies support for it, sure. Might still be difficult to read at a glance.
English-based languages potentially suffered similar conundrums, and deployed workarounds ages ago. Can't really think of one right now, we probably got so used to it we don't even see it as a workaround anymore.
Is there no Spanish word for “Variable”?
Yes. Its "variable". I know. Very original
it does make me wonder why programming or markup languages can't be localised. like imagine if you could do something like root.css or index.php (or w/e) when coding and have the web server or compiler intepret it based on whichever configuration you configure as the base language
Hmm, if you ignore the esoteric versions of existing programming languages I can think of one place where this is done in the wild. That is if you consider Excel formulas to be a sort of programming language ;)
The pain you have to go through when looking for help only in the local language, then giving up and trying to figure out which functions are which in English. Then switching it all to English, then having people ask you for help when they have it in the local language. That is one reason I can think of to not localize a programming language :)
the joke here i think is that sí in spanish sounds like c in english tho
No, menos menos is being negative, please ignore.
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