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| 830.1 | | PRSSOS::MAILLARD | Denis MAILLARD | Mon Sep 24 1990 13:34 | 4 |
| As far as French is concerned, most French programmers, if not all, use
the English words. And the LOLA (for LOcal LAnguage) product is not
supported anymore since VMS V4.0.
Denis.
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| 830.2 | | TKOV51::DIAMOND | This note is illegal tender. | Tue Sep 25 1990 05:49 | 11 |
| For a while, there were compilers for programming languages with
keywords chosen from other languages. But people don't do that
any more. Modern implementations tend to have a single set of
keywords, which are generally based on English and not translated.
(As a Digital employee who is not in the corporate standards
department, I have been forbidden to mention the actual reason
why implementations tend towards, uhm, being, er...)
In VMS operating system 5.3, we have the "set language" command
for English or Japanese. However, All-In-1 programs ignore the
setting and always display their messages in Japanese.
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| 830.3 | I thought 'grep' was French anyway? | PASTIS::MONAHAN | humanity is a trojan horse | Thu Sep 27 1990 15:59 | 24 |
| There is certainly a French-Canadian version of Focal. You might
get details in MSDSWS::FOCAL_LANGUAGE. The Atari PC we have at home
works only in French, though that is a menu system rather than a
command language. For some languages it might be unacceptable to start
a command with the verb, but this would not worry a menu system.
I have heard of French versions of both Cobol and Basic, and the
French have their own terms for most computer terminology. You *must*
use them in all government tenders - otherwise it means automatic
rejection, even if you know the person reading the tender is familiar
with the English terms.
A Swede once told me that there was an attempt to the same sort of
thing in Sweden, and that the proposed Swedish terms for long-term and
short-term storage translated back as "horse-memory" and
"chicken-memory", but he might have been pulling my leg.
Une Taupe dans l'Ordinateur de l'�cole Polytechnique
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Une fois le dialogue �tabli avec l'ordinateur frontal - quelques
chiffres � composer sur le cadran - le pirate a-t-il tent� de p�n�trer
dans l'un des "cerveaux" du "Cray One"?
(quote from newspaper article in front of me)
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| 830.4 | | VOGON::BALL | Have you got a licence for that pun? | Fri Sep 28 1990 18:40 | 19 |
| 99.73%� of programmers worldwide use American English versions of languages.
Products for the other 0.27% have included some British micros including the
Acorn BBC Micro with a COLOUR command. When Acorn attempted to sell it in the
States they wrote a new ROM with a COLOR command...
A version of BASIC for the Welsh-built Dragon home computer was produced with
Welsh keywords by a third party.
Jon
�Plausable sounding made-up statistic.
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| 830.5 | user-friendly | ERICG::ERICG | Eric Goldstein | Sun Oct 21 1990 08:52 | 6 |
| .2> In VMS operating system 5.3, we have the "set language" command
.2> for English or Japanese. However, All-In-1 programs ignore the
.2> setting and always display their messages in Japanese.
That must make life interesting for All-In-1 users outside Japan, most of whom
don't know Japanese.
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