Re: theoretical idea - would this work?
Re: theoretical idea - would this work?
- Subject: Re: theoretical idea - would this work?
- From: Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 07:45:01 -0200
At 17:07 -0800 28/01/2002, email@hidden wrote:
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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:43:15 -0800
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From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
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On Saturday, January 26, 2002, at 10:08 AM, Diggory Laycock wrote:
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> Or is English an industry standard that would not benefit from being
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> changed (like pilots having to speak English.)
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There have been attempts to (say) offer the C language with
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German, Spanish and Japanese keywords, but these efforts have
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tended to fade out for lack of interest.
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Anywhere in the world, if someone wants to write code the first
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thing they do is learn English.
Weren't there localized versions of Hypercard and AppleScript? I believe at least the keywords were translated into several languages, though I doubt those variants were used by anything but a handful of people.
As a side note, I personally find AppleScript very hard to use... the apparent "English-likeness" gets too much in the way, I constantly have to refer to a syntax chart because I can never remember the correct dumbed-down sentence structure.
As a historical note, in the late 70's there were some attempts here in Brazil to produce versions of Basic and Pascal with Portuguese keywords, and a noted university had a CS course where no English technical words were supposed to be used. The "glossary" they produced was hilarious.
Personally, I think English is one of the most convenient languages for programming... but I may just have gotten used to it. :-)
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