From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!purdue!cak
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: Programming in other languages
Article-I.D.: purdue.307
Posted: Wed Jul 21 10:10:52 1982
Received: Sun Jul 25 06:49:11 1982
References: ecn-pa.208

I worked in Germany for a while, and it's just as you imagine. COBOL,
PL/I, BAL and APL (it was an IBM shop) were all programmed with English
keywords, German variable names. It was interesting, to say the least.

Even more intriguing were the manuals. The latest software release was
always available, but manuals in German were usually a couple of
revisions behind, leading to many difficulties. I was often called upon
to do on the spot technical translations from the *current* English
version.

Chris Kent, Purdue CS Dept.