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Article #1291Re: Programs from other countries.
From: Major
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 1990 03:46
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 1990 03:46
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connors@druco.ATT.COM (ConnorsPA) writes: > 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? Some years ago, I went to a seminar given by someone from the USSR accademy of sciences. He said that they wrote their own compilers which took russian keywords. He said the FORTRAN compiler was easy because there were few keywords and the result was not expected to be directly readable. COBOL was more difficult as the result was supposed to end up looking like Russian (not english) sentences. ---- Happy Hacking! | US immigration official to little old lady: Do you Major | support the overthrow of the government by violence | or subversion? Lady: (long pause) Violence I think
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From: major@pyrmania.oz (Major)
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Subject: Re: Programs from other countries.
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