A Visual Approach to Programming Language Internationalization: An Arabic Case Study  

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Citrin, Wayne V. ; Suleiman, Khalid A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Problems and Language Planning vol. 19 no. 2 (1995), page 113-132.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/LPL/19 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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One oft-repeated claim that is made for visual computer programming languages is that they are language-neutral, and are therefore suitable for programmers with little knowledge of English or other Indo-European languages. Little evidence has been produced in support of this claim, however. We present an experiment supporting the thesis that visual languages are well suited for programmers whose native language is not English. We first analyze the particular problems of our target group, Arabic speakers, in comprehending Pascal program structures, and we present a number of previously proposed solutions to this problem. We then present our own solution, a visual programming environment in which all syntactic and nearly all semantic information is presented in a BLOX-like notation. Only labels, variable names, expressions, and comments are presented textually, in Arabic. Finally, we present the results of an experiment in which the system received a high degree of acceptance among Arabic speakers. The system we describe is easily retargetable to other languages, and we believe that the advantages of such a system for Arabic speakers are equally applicable to the speakers of other languages.

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