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        1. …in reply to @herbcaudill
          @herbcaudill @geoffreylitt reasonable, but any thing like this is going to be a massive undertaking and i personally cant feel right putting a chunk of my finite life into a partial solution. what youre describing is a band-aid, a good band-aid but even at its theoretical limits it does not deliver equity
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        @herbcaudill @geoffreylitt moreover, frankly, i dont think it would work. if i understand correctly youre suggesting compiler plugins for non-english speakers to use their own languages. that does not answer the library problem, which is the most serious problem to address.
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      @herbcaudill @geoffreylitt in this scheme, english libraries are still in english. if i use them from my arabic localized compiler, im still using english identifiers. if i write a library in arabic, how do i publish it? with arabic identifiers that other cant/wont use? or am i translating it into english?
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    @herbcaudill @geoffreylitt my concern with any partial solution where "real" programming is still done in english as it always has been will introduce enough friction/overhead to simply not be worth actually using. it might make for a cool hack, but not a workable, load-bearing solution in my estimation.
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