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Non-English Programming Languages?

jjohnson asks: "As a coder I've been exposed to a lot of programming languages, big and small, and they're all in (pseudo) English, reflecting their invention and development in English speaking countries (or to gain traction in English speaking countries, such as Ruby). Of course, there's no reason a programming language couldn't be developed in Russian, using a cyrillic character set; or Chinese, using kanji; or Japanese, using hiragana. All three of those nations have big/advanced enough developer communities to justify the development of native-tongue programming languages, which have the obvious benefit of not requiring their developers to learn/code in a foreign language. What non-English programming languages exist, and how do they compare?"

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  1. C ? by noselasd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "#define" is your friend.(enemy..)

    #define if hvis
    #define do gjør
    #define while sålenge
    #define return returner
    #define void ingenting
    #define char karakter
    #define const konstant
    typedef int tall;

    tall lengde(konstant karakter *p){
    tall i = 0;
    sålenge(*p){
    i++;
    p++;
    }
    returner i;
    }