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when you say "not an English native speaker", is your native language also having a non-Latin script? Most (not all) european languages (e.g., French, German, English, Spanish) have same or almost similar script, making it easy to pickup words and phrases of an another language with the same script. Agreed that you are cutoff from the rest of the world's documentation on the topic, I do see your point there. But, without this bridge, people who dont know how to read/write/understand latin/english script, they are cutoff from the world not just on the topic, but everything else. Here's why that is important to know:
By some estimates, about 10% of Indian population can speak english. Even if you were to consider 20% can read the english alphabet, thats still nearly a billion people who will have difficulty in getting started with programming, because all they know is a Tamil, Kannada or Telugu script (all quite different from each other and from English). having a localized programming language can enable lot more diversity in the field of computer programming (especially in countries like India). |