From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!ecn-pa.scott
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Other Languages
Article-I.D.: ecn-pa.246
Posted: Fri Jul 23 08:30:48 1982
Received: Mon Jul 26 05:17:39 1982

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>From teklabs!tekid!rogerw Fri Jul 23 02:19:09 1982
To: teklabs!pur-ee!ecn-pa.scott
Subject: Re: Programming in other languages
In-reply-to: Your news article ecn-pa.207 of Wed Jul 21 09:00:21 1982

I am not an expert in the field, but I have been told that most
computer programming is done in English, or at least with English
command words as you describe.  I saw an article when IBM provided
versions of FORTRAN with the reserved words translated into several
European languages (eg., GEH ZU for the infamous GO TO) however I
also was told that this is a rare occurance.  Apparently, the
Komrads in the Soviet Union still like to work in machine language more
than we do, and most of their computers have the Latin alphabet.
They apparently do far less word processing than we.
I suspect, with the advent of home computers, this will change.
the more educated in most advanced foreign countries are
far more versitle in foreign languages than we are in the US.