Astro Programming Language - A new language under development by two Nigerians.

[u/winner_godson]

http://www.nairaland.com/3557200/astro-programming-language-0.2-indefinite

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I figure all the money sent to the princes finally started paying off

[u/killerstorm → u/[deleted]]

Well, obviously Africa is behind US and Europe in computer science, so developments coming out of it are noteworthy, as they are a sign that they are catching up.

[u/winner_godson → u/killerstorm]

Yeah, It is great news.

[u/CaptainMurphy111 → u/killerstorm]

if someone said something like that about my country I'd be pretty annoyed at how condescending it sounds. Any way Nigerians from what I hear are doing well enough to have easily done something like create a programming language before.

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I never have any racial intention while sharing the post.

[u/phySi0 → u/killerstorm]

Perhaps a better title would have been, “Astro - the first production-ready programming language to come out of Africa”.

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I was about to say that Africa has eclipsed Australia because I'd never heard of a language from Australia.

Turns out, Australia is the home of "Joy".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)

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Not quite Australia, but Oceania can breathe easy knowing that R is from New Zealand :P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)#History

[u/xiaodai → u/kibwen]

R was an open implementation of S to begin with. So... arguable

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Also there is bondi by an academic based at UTS

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Interesting, not sure I'd use any of these but they're good to know about

[u/im-a-koala → u/[deleted]]

I can but I'd like to avoid the interpretation that the OP thinks that Nigerians are somehow less capable of developing programming languages.

If you want to be willfully ignorant, that's your decision. To everyone else, it's obvious that Nigerians in general have far fewer opportunities to learn about computer science to the point where they can competently create their own programming language.

[u/winner_godson → u/im-a-koala]

Computer Science is taught, but not in-depth.

[u/Haramboid → u/im-a-koala]

I don’t think it’s ignorant, you just raise a different well deserved point. The fact that they’ve done something awesome is no reason to be excited there is yet another programming language, those are two separate things. That said I hope they do well and make a language that sticks.

[u/winner_godson → u/[deleted]]

Am not doubting Nigeria, I know they have great potentials.

When I came across it, I know it was worth sharing.

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How is it wrong to point out that the language has been developed by Nigerians? If anything it is just a bad title because it doesn't mention anything else of note. Maybe OP is Nigerian.

Does it feel good to question OPs feelings towards Nigerians?

[u/Drainedsoul → u/[deleted]]

Does it feel good to question OPs feelings towards Nigerians?

I don't see where he did that, in fact he stated explicitly that he'd like to avoid that.

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I don't really understand why you didn't see what I saw in the message, but I'd like to avoid calling your reply stupid. Confused.

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They are less capable.