From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!ecn-pa.scott Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Other Languages Article-I.D.: ecn-pa.247 Posted: Fri Jul 23 08:31:15 1982 Received: Mon Jul 26 05:20:52 1982 (Forwarded) >From teklabs!tekmdp!azure!laurir Fri Jul 23 02:19:25 1982 To: tekmdp!teklabs!pur-ee!ecn-pa.scott Subject: Re: Programming in other languages In-reply-to: Your news article ecn-pa.207 of Wed Jul 21 09:00:21 1982 The various European implementations of Algol-60 and Algol-68 (almost) always use native-language versions of the keywords. In the Algol-68 committee, there was a long argument between those who wanted "par" to mean "parallel" execution in the standard (English) language, and French nationals who planned to use "par" for "for". -- Andrew Klossner (ex-Algol hacker)