28 Nov
2018
28 Nov
'18
6:16 a.m.
On Nov 27, 2018, at 10:06 PM, Cameron Kaiser via
cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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
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