Old pre-Internet Mexican here: when personal computers (think CoCos and Atari 800s) started coming, BASIC ruled, and it was extremely easy to grasp for kids:
GOSUB, RETURN, FOR, DIM, PRINT, PEEK, POKE, etc. were just abstract words that we just accepted without fully understanding their English roots. They might as well have been CALLBACK, THROW, ITER, FOO, BAR, etc., and we would have used them just as well. We reasoned in Spanish, then coded our reasoning in the abstraction that was BASIC. When reading code, it was like reading math, not a story.
More so, with the meme culture nowadays, even kids know enough English words to understand the roots of many tokens in programming languages.
Maybe programming with tokens rooted in your native language actually provides something I wasn't able to enjoy, but programming for me feels very different from speaking English, I'd bet the two don't even use the same brain regions, unless you're forcing yourself to comment in English.
Let's see what comes out of Latino. Hopefully they'll add Unicode identifiers later, because writing "funcion" instead of "función" is still bad Spanish.
GOSUB, RETURN, FOR, DIM, PRINT, PEEK, POKE, etc. were just abstract words that we just accepted without fully understanding their English roots. They might as well have been CALLBACK, THROW, ITER, FOO, BAR, etc., and we would have used them just as well. We reasoned in Spanish, then coded our reasoning in the abstraction that was BASIC. When reading code, it was like reading math, not a story.
More so, with the meme culture nowadays, even kids know enough English words to understand the roots of many tokens in programming languages.
Maybe programming with tokens rooted in your native language actually provides something I wasn't able to enjoy, but programming for me feels very different from speaking English, I'd bet the two don't even use the same brain regions, unless you're forcing yourself to comment in English.
Let's see what comes out of Latino. Hopefully they'll add Unicode identifiers later, because writing "funcion" instead of "función" is still bad Spanish.