Re: language design implications for variant records in a pascal-like language

"robin" <robin51@dodo.com.au>
Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:31:28 +1100

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From: "robin" <robin51@dodo.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:31:28 +1100
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 10-12-040 10-12-043 11-01-005 11-01-009 11-01-027 11-01-031 11-01-037 11-01-040
Keywords: design
Posted-Date: 15 Jan 2011 00:19:58 EST

From: "glen herrmannsfeldt" <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
> I have always wondered why so many languages use English words
> for keywords, even though programmers may speak other languages.


With PL/I, it has always been possible to substitute (for a keyword)
any suitable word in the user's natural language.


Often, programmers in countries whose national language is not
English also have command of English, so writing the programs
using the English keywords is not a problem.


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