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I want a programming language that supports German style composite words (lemmy.world)

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[-] d_k_bo@feddit.org 66 points 2 days ago

Aren't you müde from writing Rust programs in English? Do you like saying "scheiße" a lot? Would you like to try something different, in an exotic and funny-sounding language? Would you want to bring some German touch to your programs?

rost (German for Rust) is here to save your day, as it allows you to write Rust programs in German, using German keywords, German function names, German idioms.

[-] lily33@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

Too bad that's based on macros. A full preprocessor could require that all keywords and names in each scope form a prefix code, and then allow us to freely concatenate them.

[-] codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

PETA isn't going to like all those für loops

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago

Für is short for fuer. The umlauts are tiny "e" on top of the letters

[-] tromars@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago

That’s how umlauts historically evolved, but nowadays I wouldn‘t say ü short for ue, but its own letter (even though you still can write it as ue if you don’t have it available on your keyboard or whatever)

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 days ago

Well, my point is that it's not considered a u, and Austrian and Swiss don't use it.

Also, fun fact, some romance languages like French and Brazilian Portuguese have an identical diacritic to umlaut but it's different. It's meant to mean the vowel is separate (like in the word naïve)

[-] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

in Brazillian portuguese it had a completely different meaning, and it was used for disambiguation of the pronounciation of some words, in short "gue" in portuguese can make a ghe (gh as in ghost) or a gue (gu as in guatemala), a similiar thing happens with "que", this umlaug looklike was meant to make clear that the "u" was to be pronounced, so we had spellings like "freqüencia"

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

That's exactly the other meaning I described. In Portuguese it was/is used to separate the vowels so they are not pronounced together.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We call it tréma. Aka diaeresis. It explicitly tells you to pronounce two vowels near each other separately.
A typical use is to indicate a normally silent vowel must be read out. For example "maïs" (MA-EE-S') is completely different from "mais" (MAY).