non-english programming languages
There's an
entry at slashdot about non-english programming languages. The entry itself is short, it's just a question asking if there are any non-english programming languages, and if so, what do they do? The resulting threads are quite interesting, and unlike many slashdot user responses they are not filled with crap. There are some funny lines like "coding in another language doesn't mean replacing 'for' loops with 'pour'", because in fact that wouldn't be coding in another language, it would be coding with translated words. Coding in another language would be like writing prose in another language -- syntax would be fundamentally different. Of course, there's a
wikipedia entry for this topic already, and has some interesting links if you're looking at it from a linguistic standpoint.
