Saftey net in this context means that the government gives to the person something they have not earned. Communist countries doen't have saftey nets because everyone is already in the net. Rather than letting some succeed and protect others, they bring down others so that misery is spread equally.
In other systems (including the US's quasi-capitalism) there are often elements that act as safty nets because while we all want to succeed, we want to bound failure out of fear that one day it may be us suffering. Make sense?
I honestly have no clue what you mean by tossing out the word "Marxist.":\ The US is so far removed from that paradigm that I really don't see how it's applicable.
Maybe you were kidding... maybe you're astute. In any case it's a shame this got marked "Funny" when it's dead-on correct.:)
I dearly wish more people grasped this and stopped sounding the hollow bell of doom. Now immigration doesn't have a natural check / balance on it like capitalist economics does. I'm more worried about the influx of out-of-work Mexicans who may be looking for opportunity or may just be the losers in the society. In either case, it'll wack our economy silly and it's not a ride I care to take. About the only good side I can see to it is that it will force our Socialist tendencies into bankruptcy faster so we can make real plans and real social-saftey nets that work.
Sam
IANAL but I've always heard the Licensing agreement legally refered to as a contract between two parties. If you have held up your end of the contract then it is very reasonable for the company to give you new keys.
All that said, it is reasonable to charge the user some sort of small penalty fee.
Hope this gives you leads to do other, more accurate, research than asking/.. Sheesh.:)
One of the dangers of automation is that when machines start to handle data the people forget it. On some level that's the point, but on another level it's important to have documented somewhere/how/ your automation does what it does.
A second key to making automation a big time saver is marry its input/output to a standard and shareable data communication medium. What I mean by that is have it able to do reports and accept commands from something like a web browser, e-mail, or RSS feed. Also, consider how you might automate the automation. That is to say, if you have a large testing system with many configuration options, developer A may only use 3 configurations. Make it easy for him to reconfigure the system and launch his tests or builds or whatever with a small script it only took him 10 minutes to put together.
Finally, make the log chatty!:) If you're automating something non-trivial it's a great idea to have a readable log to go back to when something breaks.
These are some non-obvious things I've learned from using an in-house automated testing tool that I spent far too much time reverse engineering than using.:\
* They did get the chatty log part down. Saved me loads of time.
* They offerd reporting in XML but didn't make the file trivially accessible. (Doh)
* They didn't offer any method to easily automate the automation. My testing time was cut from 5 hours to 20 minutes when it could have been cut to about 1 minute. Not a HUGE savings, but significant *and* it cuts down on the distraction of thinking about how to set up the automation for task A or B.
Hope this helps.:) This is maybe more of a lessons learned than a dirrect reply to your question.
Sam
This from the great unbiased blog (thx Slashdot crack reporting staff for vetting this one...):
"And now, suddenly, because ONE ANTI-GAY ACTIVIST COMPLAINED, they've suddenly changed their minds ON A CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE."
News Flash: Being homosexual is not an unchangeable physical characteristic. It is a desire and a way of thinking which may or may not be linked to genetics. We do not know conclusively yet. Linking this with the Civil rights movment cheapens the real threat and loss of life in that movement and drives away the person looking for serious dialog. Also, unlike race and color, you have to get to know someone to realize they are gay.
Perhaps second in importance (behind this offensive cheaping of the Civil Rights Movement) is that your sexuality, hetero or homo has zero place at work. Zero. None. If you walk in the office and show, "Strait Pride," or "Gays Represent," you are harassing others around you and can be charged with intimidation and threatening and, depending on how good your lawer is, sexual harassment.
I have no problem with people who are homosexual but I do have a problem when they insist on being celebrated by others. I think it's a "sin" (oh no, Bible word, turn off critical reading part of brain) and I refuse to submit to any part of the "Homosexual Adgenda" which I find nothing short of trying to normalize a behavior that we all should tolerate but most of us do not approve of. Let me say that again, a behaviour. You can't see homosexuality. Next thing you know we will be sueing for Civil Rights for Mets fans because of hate crimes in the Bronx by the Yankee Fans.
Now, having spoken apart from herd, treat me like you do all dissenters. You know the drill, you tollerant, thinking folks. Tolerance for every view but mine.:)
When ever I write anything of any substantial size I typically go through a stage of coding libraries. One of the libraries I have found *invaluable* is the "name space." All it is is an object that takes a string and a primitive datatype (int8, int16, int32, int64, string, or byte array) and an name space.
This lets you make a tree of values which you call write() on the root value and the whole tree is written to a stream. This lets you push configs to a file or over a TCP stream and read said objects back in SIMPLY!
Typically I put a "modules" namespace in the root namespace in which I store namespaces named after all the modules I load. SO, when I load my config file I do...
value = myNameSpace.find("module configs");
value = value.find(moduleName);
Then I pass that namespace to the module and let it configure itself. This makes global values either totally obsolete or limited to a single global value (depending on how you prefer to organize your project). This also makes configuraton files VERY easy to manipulate.
I can't say enough good things about this pattern of value management! MS has used it by introducing the registry which has its problems, but is a very similar idea of hierarchical data storage indexed by names.
Hope you find this interesting.:)
We see these posts trumpeted by entities like Slashdot. It it warrented? Does Redmond have any credibility on things like this left? Should we be paying any more attention to this sort of behavior than to just consider what MS is doing?:\ I'm more interested in the well thought out comments all-y'all have.
Note that this isn't a particular vulnerability, just a system of typing that makes it easy to introduce vulnerabilities, which last time I checked, all C programmers deal with..NET was sold as a "safe" coding solution because C# was strongly typed and did bounds checking. Also,.NET puts your code in a sandbox. By using a C or C++ library with any "safe" code you make that code now unsafe because there is nothing preventing the virtual machine code of the C or C++ code form doing bad things to the (for example) C# generated code. This is a fault in the language of C and C++. It is true that all C and C++ programmers deal with it and as such I'm surprised more don't seem to understand what these dangers involve or how they can impact code written in a "safe" language (like SML) running in the same space as "unsafe" code like C.
So, we used to have little dumb terminals that talked to the big smart backend. Then computer became cheaper and we had Personal Computers, but we have to manage and distribute all these updates and it's a real pain and it sometimes destroys your computer during the upgrade/install process. Now we can swing the pendulum back towards the Network Computer a little more.
This isn't a new idea. Software companies like MS would love to sell you a subscription to MS Office which you renew and they in turn patch and maintain the software on your company's server or on the MS servers. It's a neat idea for sure. Companies like Novel have made some interesting claims about Network Computers.
There is also the whole Plan9 type of mentality too.
Ah, so this is a police state? I must say, I like it. Lots to talks about, open dialog about disagreements, utter maniacs like George Soroes getting lots of influence -- not bad.
So, beyond the misapplication of terms, you do raise a good point, why would the world care about domestic politics in the US? They haven't gone over the UN's impotent head in almost a year now! Nope... no reason to keep an eye on the US... or France... or Britian... and as an American I sure don't care a lick about what goes on in Canada! I mean, who cares what our largest trading parter does!
Further more, given how unbiased and accurate the NY Times has become, I'm sure it's a great source to consult! Just consider the accurate, fair, balanced, and just visionary reporting they NY Times has brouth us over the years! Mark Levin has an excellent
article on this quality publication.
Security is paying work, unless your company has a reputation without worth. You can get that sentiment out of any of the good security books out there, but saddly management can only see the spending cycle, not the averted crash-burn-patch-fix cycle. Remind him that if we were all "paranoid" to begin with, we wouldn't have had a hacker tell us to patch our stuff. What if the hacker didn't like you so much?
Security really isn't a game or a buzz word. Folks have to own that concept, not just parrot it.
Labor Department Downplays Offshoring??? WHAT? How dare they downplay such a serious number like 3%, and that being of lost jobs! Why, that's not as big as 3% of all jobs, but that's not the point. Three percent is huge and they dare to talk down to us like we aren't doing so bad when THREE-PERCENT of our lost jobs were lost over seas!!! This is epedemic and only shows that we should have gone to the UN and George Bush knew about 9/11 all so that Cheney could get tons of oil for his new Yacht when poor John Kerry has to put up with all this lying and scandal orchestrated by the right wing attack machine. Why I just can't believe this! How DARE they tell us this isn't the end of the civilized world as we know it!!!
[Takes a deep breath]
But what do you expect from our friends at the fair-and-balanced NY Times?
Most (all?) of the cited examples are ditributed computation projects. Most have agents that call up a server and signout work to do.
The vision of grid computing is to treat computation power like electrical power. Where there is demand, the computation power "flows" and "fills" that demand.
For example, a simple example is that you have a webserver cluster, a database cluster, and a network area storage cluster, all made up of off-of-the-shelf PCs. If demand for database logic goes up and stays up, one of the computers being used for redundant storage could STOP replicating data and START being a database server. If the web requests go up, one of the database computers could stop handling database requests and start handling web requests.
Obviously, there are hard limits that must be met. We must have at least 1 web server, 1 database server, and enough storage machines to keep our data safe. We also have to detect failure or excess load and have a transition path for the generic computer to change what computational task it helps with.
Amazing stuff, and if you ponder the details of it, it is a bit of a challenge!! As another poster mentioned before, this does relate to self-healing technology and it also does relate to the distributed computing projects you mentioned in your post.
LOL!!!!:) Ok, ok, but in my defense I bad mouthed all of humanity. I just lumped those scientists in with the rest of us.;)
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Tell me one, just one, "lie" that has entered any reputable schoolbook.
Please re-read my post a bit more critically if you are interested in what I said. You read quite a bit of hostility into it and I don't care to banter meaning on my time. I will draw your attention to the fact that I say that scientists share the faults we all have and are not elevated above some plane of biases by some great purpose and training.
I've also known lots of folks that don't worship but verify, by their own account.:\ I'm suspicious of your claimed objectivity.
So, on to your question; Here is a quick list...
Embryonic recapitulation (this theory fantasy... really bad.)
There is a Scientific Method that Scientists Use (Some sciences have no notion of an "experiment" and real scientists follow hunches and are quite creative )
Clouds are made of water vapor (it's dust that water condences around)
Sound travels "better" through solids and liquids.
Planes fly by the wing being "sucked" up because of the air foil effect. (Not totally wrong, but not correct.)
The space ship is heated on renetry by friction. (pressure causes this)
The Fox Terier (URL mentioned above)
The moth that evolved to a black colour during the industrial revolution. (Never happend; later confessions shows the photo was a fake by the publisher)
Consider this:
"There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that
I lost long ago." - Robert Oppenheimer
Now, you who lashed out at this post and those who tagged it as "flame bait," consider how much objective checking you did before defending science with your mild vitrial. In a sense, you're an example to the very problem I warned against.
Given that Congress sends the laws to the president and the president is our military's Commander in Cheif I strongly urge you to consider voting on the Patriot Act with your Congressmen.
Regarding our Presidential election, I believe that the primary issue is The War on Terror and I would vote with respect to that since the President is the larger player in that.
The good news is that lots of folks, including Kerry, think that the Patriot Act needs to be revised. There are a lot of points in it. Some good. Some bad. Some we can debate about. Again the question is of balance between your trust of the government and the effectivness of our prosecution of the War on Terror at home. They are not fundamentally diametrically opposed, but in many cases there is a conflict.:\ Tough stuff, for sure.
So, after the ice age coming back, global warming destroying us, acid rain eating us and the oil supply being exhausted by 2010 I take science headlines with a grain of salt. The fact that this is from the NY Times just furthers my suspicion. That paper has destroyed its reputation over the years.
One thing that folks have to realize is that scientists are people. They get happy and sad, they are humble and proud, and they lie, steal, cheat and grab for headlines as reagularly as any normal person would.
This is not to discredit the publishers of this work, but to remind us all that headlines like this pop up often amount to a new natural trend or in the very rare case, us acctually damaging the environment in a way that it isn't designed to cope with.
I mention this because our geek culture has a way of worshiping the words of scientists and as a result some amusing lies have drifted in and out of school text books and around our little digital communities. Trust no one. The truth is out there. Now will I get sued by Fox or the aliens over Mexico??? Hmmm...
I saw someone else say this, but the score was 0!!! I hope that wasn't uninformed moderation.:\ Anyway...
... you can change most compilers to accept any variation of strings as the tokens by changing the lexer! If you would like C in Finnish, it's a very strait forward task once you settle on words that you want to use. Even change the file format from ASCII to UTF-8! It's just bytes that go into the lexer and then everything is a token.
Writting a wholey new language doesn't make much sense if you don't have an innovative idea for expressivity. Again, we are only talking about changing the lexer. Ideas of natural language grammar don't come into programming languages all that often with some strange exceptions. (Consider "instanceof" in Java where the operand order relates to English grammar. Kinda kluge even for an English speaker.)
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Siker writes in to point out his blog post... This is just silly, /. editors.
Saftey net in this context means that the government gives to the person something they have not earned. Communist countries doen't have saftey nets because everyone is already in the net. Rather than letting some succeed and protect others, they bring down others so that misery is spread equally. In other systems (including the US's quasi-capitalism) there are often elements that act as safty nets because while we all want to succeed, we want to bound failure out of fear that one day it may be us suffering. Make sense? I honestly have no clue what you mean by tossing out the word "Marxist." :\ The US is so far removed from that paradigm that I really don't see how it's applicable.
Maybe you were kidding... maybe you're astute. In any case it's a shame this got marked "Funny" when it's dead-on correct. :)
I dearly wish more people grasped this and stopped sounding the hollow bell of doom. Now immigration doesn't have a natural check / balance on it like capitalist economics does. I'm more worried about the influx of out-of-work Mexicans who may be looking for opportunity or may just be the losers in the society. In either case, it'll wack our economy silly and it's not a ride I care to take. About the only good side I can see to it is that it will force our Socialist tendencies into bankruptcy faster so we can make real plans and real social-saftey nets that work.
Sam
IANAL but I've always heard the Licensing agreement legally refered to as a contract between two parties. If you have held up your end of the contract then it is very reasonable for the company to give you new keys.
All that said, it is reasonable to charge the user some sort of small penalty fee.
Hope this gives you leads to do other, more accurate, research than asking /.. Sheesh. :)
Ugh, I apologize for the above formatting. I'm getting a little too used to web forums and blog interfaces.
One of the dangers of automation is that when machines start to handle data the people forget it. On some level that's the point, but on another level it's important to have documented somewhere /how/ your automation does what it does.
A second key to making automation a big time saver is marry its input/output to a standard and shareable data communication medium. What I mean by that is have it able to do reports and accept commands from something like a web browser, e-mail, or RSS feed. Also, consider how you might automate the automation. That is to say, if you have a large testing system with many configuration options, developer A may only use 3 configurations. Make it easy for him to reconfigure the system and launch his tests or builds or whatever with a small script it only took him 10 minutes to put together.
Finally, make the log chatty! :) If you're automating something non-trivial it's a great idea to have a readable log to go back to when something breaks.
These are some non-obvious things I've learned from using an in-house automated testing tool that I spent far too much time reverse engineering than using. :\
* They did get the chatty log part down. Saved me loads of time.
* They offerd reporting in XML but didn't make the file trivially accessible. (Doh)
* They didn't offer any method to easily automate the automation. My testing time was cut from 5 hours to 20 minutes when it could have been cut to about 1 minute. Not a HUGE savings, but significant *and* it cuts down on the distraction of thinking about how to set up the automation for task A or B.
Hope this helps. :) This is maybe more of a lessons learned than a dirrect reply to your question.
Sam
This from the great unbiased blog (thx Slashdot crack reporting staff for vetting this one...):
:)
"And now, suddenly, because ONE ANTI-GAY ACTIVIST COMPLAINED, they've suddenly changed their minds ON A CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE."
News Flash: Being homosexual is not an unchangeable physical characteristic. It is a desire and a way of thinking which may or may not be linked to genetics. We do not know conclusively yet. Linking this with the Civil rights movment cheapens the real threat and loss of life in that movement and drives away the person looking for serious dialog. Also, unlike race and color, you have to get to know someone to realize they are gay.
Perhaps second in importance (behind this offensive cheaping of the Civil Rights Movement) is that your sexuality, hetero or homo has zero place at work. Zero. None. If you walk in the office and show, "Strait Pride," or "Gays Represent," you are harassing others around you and can be charged with intimidation and threatening and, depending on how good your lawer is, sexual harassment.
I have no problem with people who are homosexual but I do have a problem when they insist on being celebrated by others. I think it's a "sin" (oh no, Bible word, turn off critical reading part of brain) and I refuse to submit to any part of the "Homosexual Adgenda" which I find nothing short of trying to normalize a behavior that we all should tolerate but most of us do not approve of. Let me say that again, a behaviour. You can't see homosexuality. Next thing you know we will be sueing for Civil Rights for Mets fans because of hate crimes in the Bronx by the Yankee Fans.
Now, having spoken apart from herd, treat me like you do all dissenters. You know the drill, you tollerant, thinking folks. Tolerance for every view but mine.
I suppose they don't like what the existing ones say. ;)
When ever I write anything of any substantial size I typically go through a stage of coding libraries. One of the libraries I have found *invaluable* is the "name space." All it is is an object that takes a string and a primitive datatype (int8, int16, int32, int64, string, or byte array) and an name space. This lets you make a tree of values which you call write() on the root value and the whole tree is written to a stream. This lets you push configs to a file or over a TCP stream and read said objects back in SIMPLY! Typically I put a "modules" namespace in the root namespace in which I store namespaces named after all the modules I load. SO, when I load my config file I do... value = myNameSpace.find("module configs"); value = value.find(moduleName); Then I pass that namespace to the module and let it configure itself. This makes global values either totally obsolete or limited to a single global value (depending on how you prefer to organize your project). This also makes configuraton files VERY easy to manipulate. I can't say enough good things about this pattern of value management! MS has used it by introducing the registry which has its problems, but is a very similar idea of hierarchical data storage indexed by names. Hope you find this interesting. :)
Rofl! I could not agree more. :)
We see these posts trumpeted by entities like Slashdot. It it warrented? Does Redmond have any credibility on things like this left? Should we be paying any more attention to this sort of behavior than to just consider what MS is doing? :\ I'm more interested in the well thought out comments all-y'all have.
Note that this isn't a particular vulnerability, just a system of typing that makes it easy to introduce vulnerabilities, which last time I checked, all C programmers deal with. .NET was sold as a "safe" coding solution because C# was strongly typed and did bounds checking. Also, .NET puts your code in a sandbox. By using a C or C++ library with any "safe" code you make that code now unsafe because there is nothing preventing the virtual machine code of the C or C++ code form doing bad things to the (for example) C# generated code. This is a fault in the language of C and C++. It is true that all C and C++ programmers deal with it and as such I'm surprised more don't seem to understand what these dangers involve or how they can impact code written in a "safe" language (like SML) running in the same space as "unsafe" code like C.
LOL! Thank you. I don't have to post this. ;)
So, we used to have little dumb terminals that talked to the big smart backend. Then computer became cheaper and we had Personal Computers, but we have to manage and distribute all these updates and it's a real pain and it sometimes destroys your computer during the upgrade/install process. Now we can swing the pendulum back towards the Network Computer a little more.
This isn't a new idea. Software companies like MS would love to sell you a subscription to MS Office which you renew and they in turn patch and maintain the software on your company's server or on the MS servers. It's a neat idea for sure. Companies like Novel have made some interesting claims about Network Computers.
There is also the whole Plan9 type of mentality too.
Ah, so this is a police state? I must say, I like it. Lots to talks about, open dialog about disagreements, utter maniacs like George Soroes getting lots of influence -- not bad.
So, beyond the misapplication of terms, you do raise a good point, why would the world care about domestic politics in the US? They haven't gone over the UN's impotent head in almost a year now! Nope... no reason to keep an eye on the US... or France... or Britian... and as an American I sure don't care a lick about what goes on in Canada! I mean, who cares what our largest trading parter does!
Further more, given how unbiased and accurate the NY Times has become, I'm sure it's a great source to consult! Just consider the accurate, fair, balanced, and just visionary reporting they NY Times has brouth us over the years! Mark Levin has an excellent article on this quality publication.
Security is paying work, unless your company has a reputation without worth. You can get that sentiment out of any of the good security books out there, but saddly management can only see the spending cycle, not the averted crash-burn-patch-fix cycle. Remind him that if we were all "paranoid" to begin with, we wouldn't have had a hacker tell us to patch our stuff. What if the hacker didn't like you so much?
Security really isn't a game or a buzz word. Folks have to own that concept, not just parrot it.
Labor Department Downplays Offshoring??? WHAT? How dare they downplay such a serious number like 3%, and that being of lost jobs! Why, that's not as big as 3% of all jobs, but that's not the point. Three percent is huge and they dare to talk down to us like we aren't doing so bad when THREE-PERCENT of our lost jobs were lost over seas!!! This is epedemic and only shows that we should have gone to the UN and George Bush knew about 9/11 all so that Cheney could get tons of oil for his new Yacht when poor John Kerry has to put up with all this lying and scandal orchestrated by the right wing attack machine. Why I just can't believe this! How DARE they tell us this isn't the end of the civilized world as we know it!!!
[Takes a deep breath]
But what do you expect from our friends at the fair-and-balanced NY Times?
Most (all?) of the cited examples are ditributed computation projects. Most have agents that call up a server and signout work to do.
The vision of grid computing is to treat computation power like electrical power. Where there is demand, the computation power "flows" and "fills" that demand.
For example, a simple example is that you have a webserver cluster, a database cluster, and a network area storage cluster, all made up of off-of-the-shelf PCs. If demand for database logic goes up and stays up, one of the computers being used for redundant storage could STOP replicating data and START being a database server. If the web requests go up, one of the database computers could stop handling database requests and start handling web requests.
Obviously, there are hard limits that must be met. We must have at least 1 web server, 1 database server, and enough storage machines to keep our data safe. We also have to detect failure or excess load and have a transition path for the generic computer to change what computational task it helps with.
Amazing stuff, and if you ponder the details of it, it is a bit of a challenge!! As another poster mentioned before, this does relate to self-healing technology and it also does relate to the distributed computing projects you mentioned in your post.
Hope this is helpful.
LOL!!!! :) Ok, ok, but in my defense I bad mouthed all of humanity. I just lumped those scientists in with the rest of us. ;)
Please re-read my post a bit more critically if you are interested in what I said. You read quite a bit of hostility into it and I don't care to banter meaning on my time. I will draw your attention to the fact that I say that scientists share the faults we all have and are not elevated above some plane of biases by some great purpose and training.
I've also known lots of folks that don't worship but verify, by their own account. :\ I'm suspicious of your claimed objectivity.
So, on to your question; Here is a quick list...
Consider this:
"There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago." - Robert Oppenheimer
Now, you who lashed out at this post and those who tagged it as "flame bait," consider how much objective checking you did before defending science with your mild vitrial. In a sense, you're an example to the very problem I warned against.
Given that Congress sends the laws to the president and the president is our military's Commander in Cheif I strongly urge you to consider voting on the Patriot Act with your Congressmen.
Regarding our Presidential election, I believe that the primary issue is The War on Terror and I would vote with respect to that since the President is the larger player in that.
The good news is that lots of folks, including Kerry, think that the Patriot Act needs to be revised. There are a lot of points in it. Some good. Some bad. Some we can debate about. Again the question is of balance between your trust of the government and the effectivness of our prosecution of the War on Terror at home. They are not fundamentally diametrically opposed, but in many cases there is a conflict. :\ Tough stuff, for sure.
lol, Mexico recently (yesterday?) released a video of UFOs. :) That was kinda ambiguous, I admit.
So, after the ice age coming back, global warming destroying us, acid rain eating us and the oil supply being exhausted by 2010 I take science headlines with a grain of salt. The fact that this is from the NY Times just furthers my suspicion. That paper has destroyed its reputation over the years.
One thing that folks have to realize is that scientists are people. They get happy and sad, they are humble and proud, and they lie, steal, cheat and grab for headlines as reagularly as any normal person would.
This is not to discredit the publishers of this work, but to remind us all that headlines like this pop up often amount to a new natural trend or in the very rare case, us acctually damaging the environment in a way that it isn't designed to cope with.
I mention this because our geek culture has a way of worshiping the words of scientists and as a result some amusing lies have drifted in and out of school text books and around our little digital communities. Trust no one. The truth is out there. Now will I get sued by Fox or the aliens over Mexico??? Hmmm...
I agree. :\ Times like this I wish /. had a "Here-here!" or "Huzzah" voting button. :)
I saw someone else say this, but the score was 0!!! I hope that wasn't uninformed moderation. :\ Anyway...
... you can change most compilers to accept any variation of strings as the tokens by changing the lexer! If you would like C in Finnish, it's a very strait forward task once you settle on words that you want to use. Even change the file format from ASCII to UTF-8! It's just bytes that go into the lexer and then everything is a token.
Writting a wholey new language doesn't make much sense if you don't have an innovative idea for expressivity. Again, we are only talking about changing the lexer. Ideas of natural language grammar don't come into programming languages all that often with some strange exceptions. (Consider "instanceof" in Java where the operand order relates to English grammar. Kinda kluge even for an English speaker.)