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

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:18:18 +0000 (UTC)

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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:18:18 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
References: 11-01-040 11-01-048 11-01-058
Keywords: history, syntax
Posted-Date: 18 Jan 2011 00:58:44 EST

robin <robin51@dodo.com.au> wrote:
(snip)


> Pascal was designed in Europe, and it is in English.


As I understand it, and as it says in Wikipedia, ALGOL-W was
developed at Stanford. (While Wirth was visiting.)


Pascal seems to be at least partially based on ALGOL-W.


While it may have been published in Europe, the design may
have taken years, and may have been done in different places.


I do wonder, though, if people in the US would ever accept a
programming language with keywords from a non-English language.


-- glen
[Well, there's APL, where the operators tend toward Greek. -John]


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