From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: Another language anecdote...that I survived
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.498
Posted: Fri Jul 23 18:24:33 1982
Received: Mon Jul 26 05:57:15 1982


When I was in Norway, I noticed that people tended to make their variable
names Norwegain, ....  The computer they were running was built by a
Norwegian company, but the command language was English!  Guess there
aren't enough Norwegians buying computers.  Anyway, the Norwegian language
has 3 other letters (besides the usual 26).  Two of them were mapped onto
the [ and ] keys (I forget where the third was).  This made reading Pascal,
for example, very strange. (That is, the upper case were [ and ], lower case
were { and }.  The third letter might have been on \ and |.)

=Spencer