XPost: alt.folklore.computers, comp.lang.forth   
   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 10:52:56 +0000   
   "Kerr-Mudd, John"  wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 6 Dec 2025 22:50:50 -0800   
   > Bobbie Sellers  wrote:   
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   > >   
   > > On 12/6/25 22:19, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   > > > On 2025-12-07, rbowman  wrote:   
   > > >   
   > > >> On Sat, 6 Dec 2025 22:28:21 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:   
   > > >>   
   > > >>> According to Peter Flass  :   
   > > >>>   
   > > >>>>> I've seen C written in languages other than English. To clarify, the   
   C   
   > > >>>>> key words are the same, if, else, int, #include, and so forth but   
   > > >>>>> variable and function names, comments and everything else are in   
   > > >>>>> Spanish, German, and so forth. It's difficult to read.   
   > > >>>>   
   > > >>>> I've seen the same with PL/I. I understand there was once an ALGOL   
   > > >>>> compiler where they used French keywords. Debut-Fin, etc.   
   > > >>>   
   > > >>> Algol60 had a reference language which had boldface keywords, and every   
   > > >>> implmentation made its own decision about how to translate that into   
   the   
   > > >>> local character set.  (Yes, this made portable programming a lot   
   > > >>> harder.)  So while it was typical to turn the begin keyword into   
   > > >>> something like 'BEGIN' it was just as valid to turn it into 'DEBUT'.   
   > > >>   
   > > >> you could have real fun with Forth.   
   > > >   
   > > > I did.  I still have a copy of Leo Brodie's _Starting Forth_.   
   > > > I got it running on my CP/M box and fiddled with it for a while.   
   > > > I never got any real-world application going, but I did manage   
   > > > to write a Sieve of Eratosthenes.   
   > > >   
   > > > Forth love if honk then   
   > > >   
   > >   
   > > 		On the Amiga I used a shareware text processor called Textra.   
   > > 	Forth written it it was and very handy for editing Startup Scripts.   
   > > 	It did tricks I have not seen in Linux text processors and did them   
   > > 	somewhat more reliably than bookmarks in KWrite or Kate. Both   
   > > 	are excellent but aimed toward programmers more than simple   
   > > 	ASCII. I believe we had a menu-based "insert file" and know   
   > > 	we could select vertical columns of text and that was using the   
   > > 	mouse.   
   > > 	   
   > >       bliss-Dell Precision 7730-PCLOS 2025.10-Linux 6.12.60-pclos1- KDE   
   > > Plasma 6.5.3   
   > > 	   
   >   
   > xposted to clf, for more possible nostalgia.   
   >   
      
      
      
      
   Ah well.   
      
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