Re: Programs from other countries.

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From: Jens Tingleff
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 1990 06:52

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connors@druco.ATT.COM (ConnorsPA) writes:

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>	What do programs look like in other languages?
>	Are the keywords still in English, with the comments
>	in the native language? Or does everything look different?

I've noted from German computer-hobbyist magazines (hey, let's design
a 68020 based computer..) that a lot of these germans *like* their programs in
german. Most of them make do with keeping all the identifiers in german,
plus comments. Some code in English entirely. (As a digression, I code in
English, but I have `international amibitions'.)

I have even seen an ad for a Pascal compiler that allowed you to switch
keywords, so that you could have german language keywords in Pascal.
*VERY WEIRD*, IMHO.

In Denmark, I've seen a lot of programmers in acedemical environments code
in danish, and a lot of people code in English.

I don't think there is a general trend, at least not in the countries I've
seen sample code from (Denmark, Germany,..)

	Jens

jensting@diku.dk is
Jens Tingleff MSc EE, Research Assistent at DIKU
	Institute of Computer Science, Copenhagen University
Snail mail: DIKU Universitetsparken 1 DK2100 KBH O

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