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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Question on programming languages
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Date: 24 Sep 89 22:11:18 GMT
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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.