From: utzoo!watmath!rvpalliende Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: Programming in other languages Article-I.D.: watmath.3089 Posted: Sun Jul 25 10:48:50 1982 Received: Mon Jul 26 01:17:19 1982 References: ecn-pa.207 When you program in a language other than English, English keywords become special symbols, like APL symbols. Ex. The following program if( velocidad > 0.0 ) { valor++; suma += velocidad; } is read as follows: if velocidad mayor que cero, valor mas-mas, suma mas igual velocidad. Special characters are a problem. In Spanish you normally leave out all accents and the tilde over the letter. ~ n This cannot be done for the word year: an~o would become ano=anus. That particular word is dealt in several ways: Use French: agno Use Portuguese: anho Use Latin: anno. By the way, the tilde is really a small n so, the Latin approach is sensible to me. Also, Spanish manuals are normally awfully translated.