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List:       classiccmp
Subject:    Re: Non-English programming languages was Re: Text encoding Babel.
From:       Paul Koning via cctalk <cctalk () classiccmp ! org>
Date:       2018-11-28 14:16:00
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> On Nov 27, 2018, at 10:06 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> \
> wrote: 
> > Surely a Chinese or Japanese based programming language could be 
> > developed.
> 
> The Tomy Pyuuta has a very limited BASIC variant called G-BASIC which has
> Japanese keywords and is programmed with katakana characters (such as "kake"
> for PRINT). It freely interchanges with the Tomy Tutor's GBASIC (no dash)
> with the same tokens, documented here:
> 
> 	https://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/tomy/gbkeyw.html

There appear to be quite a number of non-English languges, though it isn't clear how \
many of these have significant user bases.  See \
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_languages.

In particular, that article mentions the fact that Algol 68 explicitly aimed for \
translation into other languages, both of the language definition (the "Report") and \
of the language itself.  And indeed this was done; the Wikipedia article has a link \
to the Russian specification which clearly shows a Russian version of the language.

	paul


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