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From: ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Question on programming languages
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Date: 24 Sep 89 10:42:51 GMT
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In article <1989Sep24.055713.226@m2cs.uu.no>, frode@m2cs.uu.no (Frode Odegard) writes:
: billh@hplsla.HP.COM (Bill Harris) writes:
: >I am curious: does anyone know of any computer languages that have been
: >implemented whose keywords are based on some language other than English?

: [AFNOR] They've done
: a French Pascal and I believe they will do a French Modula as well.

There was a French version of Algol 60.

The >first< Prolog from Marseilles had all its built in predicates
(no keywords in Prolog syntax) in French.  This may be the best known
programming language that _started out_ in a language other than English.