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“停课不停学”：2020 高考英语时事热点拓展阅读( 四) Passage1妙哉！大学生首创文言文编程。 词数 310 建议阅读时间 5分钟 Worlds First Classical Chinese Programming Language Although programming languages vary in forms and rules, the keywords used for almost all of them are in English. The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates however that nearly half of the world’s 22.3 million softwaredeveloperscome fromtheAsia-Pacificregion. ChinaandIndiaaloneaccount for about onethird oftheworld’stotal developerpopulation. In an attempt to add some diversity to the range of available programming languages, Carnegie Mellon University computer science major Lingdong Huang has developed ‘Wenyan-Lang,’ a programming language based on Chinese hanzi characters and the wenyan classicalChinesegrammar system. Huang did not simply replace the English characters with Chinese hanzi, instead he applied NLPtechniquestoconvert (转变) classicalChinesegrammar toJavaScript,Python,andRuby. He has open sourced the wenyan-lang project on GitHub, where it received a staggering (令 人难以相信的)11,900 starsin aweek or so. A fan of classic Chinese literature,Huang came up with the idea ofprogramming in Chinese in order to shed light on the beauty of wenyan and to inherit (继承) the historical imprint left by generationsofeminent (非凡的) figuresin Chinesehistory. But most importantly, Huang believes the goal of communication is to go beyond the limits of language: “My project still has a lot of room for improvement, but my desire for communication isasstrong assome ofthehistorical figures.” Huang says programming punctuation and line breaks can be removed without affecting the output. Considering the difficulty converting between classical Chinese and other programming languages,hehasprovided a“cheat sheet”with tipsandconversionrules. Huang has also included a renderer that can display the program in a manner that re