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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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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