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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Question on programming languages
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Date: 25 Sep 89 17:05:56 GMT
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Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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I've seen lots of code in other natural languages.

The neatest example was in a TR sent to Stanford some years back from
Germnay.  It had lots of C and troff macros (comments and macros based)
in German.  Kinda neat.

Consider Fortran and Cobol written in some Indian dialects.

WHen I was sitting on the Pascal Standards Committee,
it was noted that many of our problems came from the French.
So if you want to investigate new languages seek out the French.
Consider languages such as Lau.

Remember: keywords alone, do not a programming language make.

Another gross generalization from

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