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.