Ya está fijada la fecha para el próximo Congreso Andaluz de Esperanto, esta vez se celebrará en Antequera (Málaga) entre el 29 de octubre y el 1 de noviembre con el lema "Esperanto kaj Naturo (ĉielo kaj tero)".
La información está en la web de la Andaluzia Esperanto Unuiĝo en un artículo sobre los temas tratados en su reunión general:
http://andaluciaesperanto.blogspot.com.es/2016/03/generala-kunsido-de-aeu-en-malago.html
En el boletín en papel que me acaba de llegar viene más información acerca de las actividades culturales y lúdicas que siempre acompañan a estos congresos: excursión a El Torcal, visita a los dólmenes prehistóricos, al lugar de moler la aceituna (oliv-muelejo), así como al Observatorio Astronómico de El Torcal.
Os copio aquí el contenido de la fuente de la noticia en esperanto:
Ĝenerala Kunsido de AEU en Malago
Hodiaŭ
en la fakultato pri Informadiko kelkaj membroj de AEU celebris la
Ĝeneralan Kunsidon kie oni elektis la urbon Antequera kiel kongresurbon
de la venonta Andaluzia Kongreso okazonta de la 29a de oktobro ghis la
1a de novembro. Baldaŭ oni publikigos afiŝon pri la evento. La moto
estas: Esperanto kaj Naturo (ĉielo kaj tero).
Hoy
en la facultad de Informática algunos miembros de AEU celebramos la
Asamblea General donde se eligió la ciudad Antequera como sede del
próximo Congreso Andaluz de Esperanto que se celebrará del 29 de octubre
al 1 de noviembre. Pronto se publicará el cartel del evento. El lema
es: Esperanto kaj Naturo (ĉielo kaj tero).
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Ĝis la revido!
We wanted to propose this for a long time and now we have gathered enough evidence to think this is a good idea.
What if we make Esperanto the default language used by Crystal? With this we don't mean just the official docs, but the language itself: the keywords, the classes, the methods, etc.
Why? Well, I'll enumerate the reasons in no particular order.
1. Question and bang methods
Right now some methods have a question method at the end. For example:array.is_empty, but that reminds us of more verbose languages so we prefer to avoid that.The real reason is that the gramatical use of a word is not clear in English: "empty" can be both a verb and an adjective.
In Esperanto a word's gramatical meaning is encoded in itself via its ending:
- If a word ends with "a" then it's an adective
- If a word ends with "i" it's a verb
So, in esperanto it could simply be:(By the way, note that "aro" ends with "o": all nouns end with "o".)
Then to empty an array we currently have
array.clear(which, by the way, might be bringing the same confusion asempty). In Esperanto it will be:Also talking about the "-ig-" suffix, we could have:
aro.kolekti { ... } # same as `array.map { ... }` aro.kolektigi { ... } # same as `array.map! { ... }`This will also free the question symbol. We could use it for the "lonely operator":
2. US vs UK
We received many complaints about some Ruby/Crystal methods. The most obvious ones are "initialize" and "finalize". Some messages we received in private and IRC:- Why "initialize" instead of "initialise"?
- I always find this confusing, can we maybe choose another name?
We agree, the name must change. But since there's no obvious good candidate (US or UK?), it seems fair to switch to a neutral language.The names for "initialize" and "finalize" in Esperanto will be "iĝi" and "maliĝi". "iĝi" means "to become" (note the similiarity with the word "igi" described above). The prefix "mal-" gives a word its opposite meaning so "maliĝi" means "cease to exist". Wouldn't this be super awesome and intuitive in a language? I mean, there's no obvious relation between "initialize" and "finalize", if you look at them.
3. ! (not)
In Esperanto you can attach the "ne-" prefix ("ne" means "no") to give a word the meaning "not ..." (note that this is different from "mal-" which gives a word its total opposite meaning). So, we could make the language recognize methods starting with "ne" to mean "!...". For example:4. Learn Crystal, learn Esperanto... and the other way around
We believe both Crystal and Esperanto need to grow. If learning Esperanto means you can also start programming in Crystal, and if learning Crystal means that you can start to speak Esperanto, then its a mutual help where both parties could really benefit.Not to mention that learning Esperanto opens your mind to other languages, and makes it easier to learn them. For example after I learned Esperanto I learned French and it was very easy: "fenêtre" in French is "window", and in Esperanto its "fenestro". Or you re-learn (because you probably learned that in school) about direct objects, and how in Esperanto you use "-n" for this, and how in Japanese you use "を" for the same purpose.
It's also the case that learning Crystal opens your mind for learning other programming languages :-)
5. Why English?
We don't see any particular reason to choose English over another language other than "it's the lingua franca of the moment". In a previous century it was French, so why choose a language that might stop being used that much? In any case docs for Crystal are still made for other languages, like Japanese, Portuguese and Russian, which probably means that not everyone understands English very well.Esperanto has the benefit that (almost) no one is born knowing it so nobody has an advantage over somebody else (for example native English speakers always feel at home with programming languages), so it's only fair to use a neutral language. Many also compare Esperanto with Unix, calling it the "open source" spoken language.
Final notes
Here's a small code example written in the future language:We believe that as we will translate the language to Esperanto we will find many more cases where Esperanto's clear and concise rules will benefit the language.
What do you think? We'd love to know your opinion on this!
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