Exploring Programming Clojure In Other Human Languages
summary
Built a macro system that maps Clojure symbols and special forms into Tamil identifiers, using macros that translate forms and CLJX to target JVM and JavaScript; implements Tamil grapheme/phoneme splitting with a trie-based Tamil parser, demonstrates pluralization and letter decomposition (maram → marangal, vanakkam → va na ik ka im). Works at the REPL, requires importing translated namespaces, literals and stack traces remain English, and an editor with Unicode support (Aquamacs) was necessary after a nine-month pause.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 1:27Language and Identity
- 3:13Original Problem
- 3:45Problem Example
- 4:08Clojure and Unicode
- 6:57The Underlying Data
- 9:20Looking Back
- 11:07Looking Forward
- 12:52Current Limitations
- 13:40Trie Example - Associating Values
- 14:10Bridging Across Languages
- 15:48Diversity and Programming
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