From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!uwvax!rama Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: Programming in other languages Article-I.D.: uwvax.498 Posted: Thu Jul 22 12:31:33 1982 Received: Sun Jul 25 23:50:26 1982 I worked for a company in India, where some work was underway to come up with Hindi and Telugu versions of FORTRAN. For the benefit of the ignorant, Hindi is the national language of India and Telugu is a regional language spoken in south India. (Not to mention that India is in Asia and not in Caribbean!!) The version which I saw in operation was a Telugu one. The compiler would accept a program written in Telugu and print the output in Telugu. Unfortunately, since there were not any peripheral manufacturer making Telugu keyboards, the English keyboard had to be faked to act as a Telugu keyboard. The output was routed through a matrix printer to print the output in Telugu. There was a pre-processor which processed the Telugu text and made on the fly translation to English text before feeding it to the standard FORTRAN compiler. I believe this process was complicated quite a bit because of the fact that FORTRAN does not have the notion of keywords. I am familiar only with the early stages of this project so am not familiar with the current status. Kishore Ramachandran rama@uwisc