Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

[Tom <tb.31009.nospam@comcast.net>]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 05:28:47PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> On Friday 17 October 2003 13:15, Tom wrote:
> > Are any non-english-speaking readers aware of High-level programming
> > languages using non-English syntax?
> 
> Well, there is this really cool hack:
> Lingua::Romana::Perligata
> Hacking Perl in Latin!
> 
> Check out
> http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html

Thanks!  That's fun.

Languages are mind-manacles.  Imagine what a trip coding a language in 
chinese ideographs would be, having ~2000 keywords.  You could be 
incredibly subtle.