Are all programming languages in english?
summary
Not all languages use English keywords: about 8,900 programming languages exist and roughly 2,500 originate in the US; many others come from Europe, Japan, Brazil and beyond. Historical examples include Flow-Matic, COBOL, Fortran, Lisp and Algol; symbolic and esoteric examples include APL/K/J, Brainfuck (8 symbols), Befunge and Whitespace. Code‑golfers use Jelly (solutions in 3 characters) or Retina (5) versus verbose JavaScript, and there are full languages with localized keywords (German, Polish, Japanese, Arabic).
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:44History of programming languages
- 11:18Non-English programming languages
- 17:37Non-textual and esoteric languages
- 19:42Conclusion and Q&A
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