"Ohshima, Yoshiki" wrote:

>   I believe that the good ability of
> reading/writing/speaking the mother language is more helpful
> for kids to acquire more things in long-run.  If I would
> have kids, I hope they would learn *correct* mother language
> before learning programming.  I wouldn't want to teach them
> some compromized (wrong) sentenses.
> 
>   I'm sorry I can't suggest any good ideas, but natural
> language issue is certainly time-consuming.  I'd say I want
> SqC to put higher priority on "cutting edge" or "break
> through" type of works.

I find icons and pictures a interesting way to deal with 
this. Numbers are language independent. So is music notation.

Anybody have any pointers to research/work in this direction ?

Karl