Re: call by name, was silly question: prefix vs postfix ops

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:39:21 -0800

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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:39:21 -0800
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 08-03-012 08-03-019 08-03-026 08-03-031 08-03-034 08-03-038 08-03-044
Keywords: i18n
Posted-Date: 13 Mar 2008 17:51:53 EDT

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
(snip)


> The requirements for programs in non-English countries
> have rarely been been reflected in programming languages (standard
> libraries), character sets etc.


Not to mention keywords.


I have wondered about what non-english speakers think about the
english keywords used in the usual programming languages.


It might be that some use a preprocessor to replace language appropriate
keywords, but I believe most just use the usual english words.


-- glen

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