[vanderZwan]

Reminds me of an article about the Scratch programming language, where the author noted that being based around visual drag-and-drop blocks instead of text strings meant it was trivial to translate any Scratch program on the fly:

> Scratch, albeit visual, is still a language built around sentence fragments. Instead of using punctuation and assorted ascii art to enchant text into code, the structure and action of a Scratch program is almost as clear as prose. By using natural language fragments instead of magic identifiers in text, Scratch is unique in another aspect — Internationalization — Scratch programs can be built up out of German, French, Chinese, Japanese fragments too.

> The look on peoples faces when you change scratch into their native language is worth treasuring, an aha moment where the code becomes readable in an instant. Scratch is so readable that it has come as a surprise to some, one remarking “I understand this. It can’t be programming”.

http://programmingisterrible.com/post/76953953784/programmin...