Hindawi Programming System (hereafter referred to as HPS) is a suite of

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. It allows non-English medium literates to learn and write

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. It is a scalable system which supports many

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. Shaili Prathmik or Indic

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and Indic

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are for beginners who want to start with

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. On the higher end it supports Shaili Guru (Indic C), Shaili Shraeni (Indic C++), Shaili Yantrik (Indic Assembly), Shaily Shabda (Indic

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), Shaili Vyaakaran (Shaili Vyaaka/Indic

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), and Shaili Kritrim, which is an Indic

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targeting

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Mechanism and algorithms

HPS uses Romenagri transliteration to first convert the high level

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into a compiler acceptable format and then uses an existing

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to produce

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History

* The original contributor to HPS is Abhishek Choudhary who also developed APCISR and Romanagari * Initial public release - 15 August 2004 * Release of version 2 by the ex-

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, Dr. Ram Prakash Mahto - 15 August 2005 * Release of Linux port under Sarai fellowship - 16 August 2006

Awards and recognition

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's National Young IT Professional Award 2005 Sarai / CSDS

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fellowshi

Hindawi is recognised by

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, Government of India. Hindawi was shortlisted for Manthan Award 2007

References

External links

Hindawi Project on Sourceforge

An independent review of Linux port of Hindawi

An article on the need for Indic programming language refers to Hindawi

Hindawi Linux (port) home page with training videos
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