Why is it that there does not seem to be any compilers around to deal with say a French or German version of 3GL programming languages. All that is needed is the direct translation of all the key words such as IF, ELSE, ...
This would make it so much easier for non Eglish speaking students of programming.
Compilers that understand a French version of C++?
There are only a handful of keywords a person has to learn in any programming language. It's not as if an entire human vocabulary, grammar and syntax had to be learned.
If each nationality had its own version of, say, C++, we would have a Tower of Babel situation with C++ compilers. I would not be able to compile code from France, nor they, mine.
Currently, in the world of computer languages, English is the Lingua Franca.
Reply:Instead of whining about it, why don't you start a project on sourceforge? The problem is that software is written in the USA. Even foreign characters don't work well (different encodings). For programming, adding support for foreign words to compilers would make compilers much more complicated/more bugs. What's really needed are programming languages written by people who don't speak English.
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