From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!ecn-pa.scott
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Other Languages
Article-I.D.: ecn-pa.247
Posted: Fri Jul 23 08:31:15 1982
Received: Mon Jul 26 05:20:52 1982

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>From teklabs!tekmdp!azure!laurir Fri Jul 23 02:19:25 1982
To: tekmdp!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

The various European implementations of Algol-60 and Algol-68 (almost)
always use native-language versions of the keywords.  In the Algol-68
committee, there was a long argument between those who wanted "par" to
mean "parallel" execution in the standard (English) language, and French
nationals who planned to use "par" for "for".
  -- Andrew Klossner (ex-Algol hacker)