Coding without English
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Once upon a time (in sixties) when Cobol ruled, french came out with a french version of Cobol. It has faded out rapidly. There might be some 'oldtimers' round here who can recall more details. Regards, Zdenek
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It was ALGOL, and it preceded COBOL. It was also completely unusable outside of a university for anything practical. ALgorithmic LOGic was its hallmark, but FORTRAN already did a better job of everything it attempted to accomplish and it died the death it richly deserved. I tried learning it, but the documentation was all in badly translated French, and the language sucked. Nothing was lost to the world when ALGOL expired... "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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Ive thought about this before too. Does this mean we can imply that every programmer can speak at least a small amount of English? Has anyone (and Im sure they must) tried making use of the preprocessor and #define'ing all the English reserved words into another language? It would certainly make for some interesting looking programs!
C has never read like English in any case :-) What's the difference between a C++ programmer and God? God knows he's not a C++ programmer : anon
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It was ALGOL, and it preceded COBOL. It was also completely unusable outside of a university for anything practical. ALgorithmic LOGic was its hallmark, but FORTRAN already did a better job of everything it attempted to accomplish and it died the death it richly deserved. I tried learning it, but the documentation was all in badly translated French, and the language sucked. Nothing was lost to the world when ALGOL expired... "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
Don't touch my mother tongue Algol, pal. :) It was the first computer language I ran into at university. You are right, I've never used it but at classes. I was forced to switch to Cobol at my first job, and frankly, I missed Algol badly. A joke from old times: Cobol is for people who can't grasp the meaning of an expression C=A+B, but who are easy with this one: ADD A TO B GIVING C. Regards, Zdenek
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Have any of you ever used any programming language that didn't use English-keywords? I mean imagine a future where you'll have a chinese version of C++!!! Or Hindi or Malayalam or Spanish! Egad! Eh? :~ In fact I have never even seen a programming related book that wasn't written in English. Nish
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Just found this - Marathi Basic. Basic isn't really a programming language, but technically... http://mbasic.8m.com Vikram. ----------------------------- 1. Don't ask unnecessary questions. You know what I mean? 2. Avoid redundancy at all costs. 3. Avoid redundancy at all costs. "Do not give redundant error messages again and again." - A classmate of mine, while giving a class talk on error detection in compiler design.
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Don't touch my mother tongue Algol, pal. :) It was the first computer language I ran into at university. You are right, I've never used it but at classes. I was forced to switch to Cobol at my first job, and frankly, I missed Algol badly. A joke from old times: Cobol is for people who can't grasp the meaning of an expression C=A+B, but who are easy with this one: ADD A TO B GIVING C. Regards, Zdenek
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Zdenek Navratil wrote: but who are easy with this one: ADD A TO B GIVING C. Ouch!! I actually remember that one...:-O "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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Say if we have a Hindi version of C++, we could use these instead of the regular words: Class: Varg Object: Vastu Function: Prakriya Ang Variables: Badalte Moolya Wale Soochana Ang Inheritance: Viraasat Polymorphism: Bahu Roop Encapsulation: Akikaran ... etc. :) ;) ;P :-D :-O :rolleyes: :laugh: :cool:
Regards,Rohit Sinha
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- Mother TeresaAnytime I can use words like 'Vastu' and 'Bahu Roop' I'm a happy guy. :-D Hindu looks like a fun language to speak. BW "I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin
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Anytime I can use words like 'Vastu' and 'Bahu Roop' I'm a happy guy. :-D Hindu looks like a fun language to speak. BW "I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin
brianwelsch wrote: Hindu looks like a fun language to speak. :) Hindi is the name of the language. :) A Hindu is a follower of Hinduism (religion), just like a Christian is a follower of Christianity.
Regards,Rohit Sinha
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brianwelsch wrote: Hindu looks like a fun language to speak. :) Hindi is the name of the language. :) A Hindu is a follower of Hinduism (religion), just like a Christian is a follower of Christianity.
Regards,Rohit Sinha
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- Mother TeresaOooops. :-O That didn't make much sense then did it? :rolleyes: Still, Hindi looks like a neat language. And Hindu's seem fun too. :-D BW "I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin