From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!ecn-pa.scott
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Programming in other languages
Article-I.D.: ecn-pa.207
Posted: Wed Jul 21 09:00:21 1982
Received: Sun Jul 25 06:48:08 1982

I've always wondered how people program when they work
primarily in other languages than English.  Are there
other-language versions of English based programming
languages?  The very few examples which I've actually
seen use the English keywords with variable names in
the second language.  Something like:

	if (vitesse > 10.0)
	{
		dommage++;
		valeur--;
	}

When I see something like that, I read "if vitesse greater
than ten, dommage plus plus; valeur minus minus" with everything
but the actual French pronounced in English.  I heard a rumor
of a French version of BASIC, but I'd be interested to know
what people do in other languages.  What about cases where
the alphabet which one programs in and that of the programmers
spoken language are different?  Do you transliterate or use
English?  Questions, questions...

	Scott Deerwester
	Purdue University (pur-ee!scott)