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by 101008 1478 days ago
Hey there. I agree with some of the comments out there - a new language in Spanish does not make much sense in the pragmatic way: understanding English is a requirement for every coder out there.

However, most of the technical projects out there do not have to be usable by everyone or have an interesting goal. So kudos for creating a language from zero (I saw the code on Github and I am sure you learnt a lot doing this). Some people may think this is just "translating back to English and running Python", but you are the doing the whole parsing, so I think it is awesome.

Try to avoid the negativity that you may find in HN and be happy with this!

Abrazo che!

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"understanding English is a requirement for every coder out there."

As a learning language, which it is, there is no need or requirement to already know English well enough to program for the masses. Teach this in a Spanish grade school, and there'd be a whole lot of benefit to the students. Why should they wait until they're proficient in English before they can even start to learn coding?

I want to make crystal clear that my comments are 100% in a pragmatic way, as a project it is awesome and very enriching. Kudos to the OP.