German Squeak [was Squeak for 3-year-olds]
Richard A. O'Keefe
ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz
Thu May 3 03:05:57 UTC 2001
Brent Pinkney <Brent.Pinkney at reuters.com> wrote:
I always wondered why there are no known programming languages
with non-English syntax.
There were (at least) Chinese and French versions of Algol 60.
I have seen one program written in Chinese Algol (all I could read
was the numbers and punctuation marks) and a couple in French Algol.
Technically, the same _could_ have been done for Algol 68;
I don't know if it ever was. (There was a really _lovely_ introduction
to programming, using Algol 68, in French. But it used the English
keywords.)
O'CAML has a pluggable preprocessor; I dare say you should produce
a German version of CAML in a few minutes too.
The original Prolog, Marseilles Prolog, used French words.
The actual *structure* of Edinburgh Prolog is much closer to, say,
Maaori, than it is to English.
There are enough talented Indian programmers that I would expect there
to be quite a few programming languages looking rather like one or another
Indian language, but they wouldn't have much chance of becoming popular
elsewhere.
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