Re: compiler for Chinese development language

On 17 Oct 2005 00:35:07 -0400, Ganny wrote:


John,


> Historically, modern software development started in the US and UK,
> where people speak English.  At least as far back as the early
> 1960s there were versions of programming languages with the
> keywords other languages, but they never caught on.  A compiler
> doesn't care of an "if" keyword is the two letters IF or SI or the
> Chinese equivalent, after all.


Although they don't really count as real compilers, as far as I know
(because I never used them) some office applications like MS Office
did localize the keywords (or only function names?) in their scripting
languages. Causing a lot of trouble, of course, when people tried to
move documents between different language versions of the same office
suite...


I also saw local initiatives of translating programming languages for
the use of children. LOGO comes to mind first.


Regards,


      Gábor DEÁK JAHN


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