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   glen herrmannsfeldt to Hans-Peter Diettrich   
   Re: call by name, was silly question: pr   
   10 Mar 08 14:39:21   
   
   From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:   
   (snip)   
      
   >  The requirements for programs in non-English countries   
   > have rarely been been reflected in programming languages (standard   
   > libraries), character sets etc.   
      
   Not to mention keywords.   
      
   I have wondered about what non-english speakers think about the   
   english keywords used in the usual programming languages.   
      
   It might be that some use a preprocessor to replace language appropriate   
   keywords, but I believe most just use the usual english words.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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