From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!ecn-pa.scott Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Other Languages Article-I.D.: ecn-pa.246 Posted: Fri Jul 23 08:30:48 1982 Received: Mon Jul 26 05:17:39 1982 (Forwarded) >From teklabs!tekid!rogerw Fri Jul 23 02:19:09 1982 To: 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 I am not an expert in the field, but I have been told that most computer programming is done in English, or at least with English command words as you describe. I saw an article when IBM provided versions of FORTRAN with the reserved words translated into several European languages (eg., GEH ZU for the infamous GO TO) however I also was told that this is a rare occurance. Apparently, the Komrads in the Soviet Union still like to work in machine language more than we do, and most of their computers have the Latin alphabet. They apparently do far less word processing than we. I suspect, with the advent of home computers, this will change. the more educated in most advanced foreign countries are far more versitle in foreign languages than we are in the US.