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)