Re: "Near Miss" error handling?

dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de (Dmitry A. Kazakov)
16 Apr 2001 14:06:51 -0400

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From: dmitry@elros.cbb-automation.de (Dmitry A. Kazakov)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 16 Apr 2001 14:06:51 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 01-03-135 01-04-012 01-04-066 01-04-094 01-04-104
Keywords: i18n, practice
Posted-Date: 16 Apr 2001 14:06:51 EDT

On 15 Apr 2001 22:48:33 -0400, henry@spsystems.net (Henry Spencer)
wrote:


>In Algol 68, the loop delimiters were do...od everywhere, even Russia
>and China, except France, where they were faire...fait (which is
>actually rather elegant) (that translates roughly to "do...done").


I belive, Algol 68 (the standard, I never saw a compiler) was
completely translated in Russian ... with a catastrophic effect. I
dropped reading the standard ater turning a dozen of pages. One of the
"best " inventions was an overwhelming use of abbreviations (Russian
words are long). The result was, that even a native Russian could not
understand what this or that random chain of letters meant, or
remember the way a particular word was abbreviated.


Another attempt to "russificate" a language was COBOL, which served to
its great unpopularity among Russian programmers.


Regards,
Dmitry Kazakov

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