From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: Another language anecdote...that I survived Article-I.D.: utah-gr.498 Posted: Fri Jul 23 18:24:33 1982 Received: Mon Jul 26 05:57:15 1982 When I was in Norway, I noticed that people tended to make their variable names Norwegain, .... The computer they were running was built by a Norwegian company, but the command language was English! Guess there aren't enough Norwegians buying computers. Anyway, the Norwegian language has 3 other letters (besides the usual 26). Two of them were mapped onto the [ and ] keys (I forget where the third was). This made reading Pascal, for example, very strange. (That is, the upper case were [ and ], lower case were { and }. The third letter might have been on \ and |.) =Spencer