Re: localized languages, was call by name

Alex Colvin <alexc@TheWorld.com>
Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:22:20 +0000 (UTC)

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From: Alex Colvin <alexc@TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:22:20 +0000 (UTC)
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Keywords: i18n, history
Posted-Date: 14 Mar 2008 19:02:29 EDT

>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.


I believe Algol 68 provided for a national prologue to remap the reserved
words. Of course, since they were words like IF ... FI, CASE ... ESAC, DO
... OD, and phrases such as ... DO BEGIN ..., they didn't sound right to
English speakers either.
--
mac the naif


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