Re: Programs from other countries.

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From: Chris Kern
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 1990 21:35

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Fellow at Xerox hacked their Mesa compiler a couple of years ago
to accommodate multilingual (i.e., several languages simultaneously,
not just a single language other than English) source programs.

Compiler keywords were still in English, but module names, identifiers,
string literals and comments could be in any language or combination
of languages.

So, for example, you could use Chinese characters for constants,
put your variable names in Russian, and document your program with
Arabic comments (reading from right to left, of course), perhaps
containing German parentheticals (reading from left to right).

The source code could include different font styles (e.g., italics)
and even graphics (e.g., to diagram data structures).

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Chris Kern			     Voice of America, Washington, D.C.
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Subject: Re: Programs from other countries.
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