Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!rutgers!psuvax1!psuvm!uh2 From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Question on programming languages Message-ID: <89267.181118UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> Date: 24 Sep 89 22:11:18 GMT References: <8720001@hplsla.HP.COM> Organization: Penn State University Lines: 16 I've seen one. Years ago I saw some source code which I believe was ALGOL, except that all the Keywords were auf Deutsch, eg, wenn x > 1 dann z := 0; fur i := 1 zu 10 tun z := z + a[i]; und so weiter. Seems like this would be pretty easy to do if you had the source to the translater, or using a simple preprocessor for a compiled language. Also, in DEC-10 SIMULA, all of the error messages were in ASCII files, so that they could be easily replaced with ones in another language, and there was a compiler switch that added some Swedish and Norwegian characters to the list of characters allowed in variable names.