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Re: Fortran
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:41:56 -0400 Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:
> Tolga Dalman wrote:
>
> > i believe, that it is possible to implement quite easily, but why would you
> > do that? although the semantics of fortran wouldn't be affected, many
> > developers could be confused by different syntax (= language) of the same
> > language. so, IMHO, the translation of a programming language does not make
> > much sense, but i believe, documentation translations are highly welcome!
> >
> There is a long history of versions of standard languages with
> keywords translated into various languages. Translating the
> keywords is of course easy enough. What is harder in some cases
> is when the structure of a compound statement (such as if else)
> does not match the native language.
none of those translated languages have survived, AFAIK.
> So in fact to many people, it makes sense, especially say for
> initial student introduction, to do these kind of translations.
i do not agree to you: especially initial student introduction should aim
towards developing in a common style. that is, every CS student in the world
should learn the same thing, and (s)he should be able to find tons of
information from the internet.
i regard programming language keywords rather as symbols than words, that
could be ever translated. but that's just my view ...
> Not all the world speaks english :-)
here i totally agree, and i want to repeat my argument: as much documentation as
possible should translated.
regards,
Tolga Dalman