On Thursday 08 May 2003 12:53 pm, Picdude wrote:

> Seeing this code, with variable names in non-english has me
> curious.  Surely there are programming languages developed in
> non-English-speaking countries. So I expect that there are keywords
> in non-English, like "Druck" for Print, a "PARA"-loop (FOR-loop).
> or "nulio" for void ....... you get the idea.  But I don't know of
> any.  Anyone know of any such programming language?

It's trivial to do in Smalltalk, as there are no keywords as such.

There are six reserved words (that is, they're treated specially by
the compiler), which can trivially be given aliases (since it's easy
to tweak the compiler): true, false, nil, self, super, thisContext.

There have been a number of experimental Smalltalk systems that let
you change out the vocabularies on the fly.

Currently, Squeak (http://www.squeak.org) has multiple languages set
up in its graphical scripting environment for kids.

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