Re: localized languages, was call by name

>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.
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