Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.oz.au!ok From: ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Question on programming languages Message-ID: <2178@munnari.oz.au> Date: 24 Sep 89 10:42:51 GMT References: <8720001@hplsla.HP.COM> <1989Sep24.055713.226@m2cs.uu.no> Sender: news@cs.mu.oz.au Lines: 13 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.