From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   robin  wrote:   
   (snip)   
      
   > Pascal was designed in Europe, and it is in English.   
      
   As I understand it, and as it says in Wikipedia, ALGOL-W was   
   developed at Stanford.  (While Wirth was visiting.)   
      
   Pascal seems to be at least partially based on ALGOL-W.   
      
   While it may have been published in Europe, the design may   
   have taken years, and may have been done in different places.   
      
   I do wonder, though, if people in the US would ever accept a   
   programming language with keywords from a non-English language.   
      
   -- glen   
   [Well, there's APL, where the operators tend toward Greek. -John]   
      
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