Fortran

[Robert Dewar]

Tolga Dalman wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:46:25 -0400 Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> wrote:

> i'd love to see more productive ideas on increasing the heterogenity of
> software.
> nevertheless, i think now you misunderstood me: i never wanted to reject
> anything, since i am in no position to do something like that. rather, i
> wanted to discuss the idea of translating programming languages. 

OK, fair enough. For sure, it is the case that efforts at translating
keywords have not caught on in mainstream use at all. Even translating
error messages is not common, and most professional programmers tend
to read english pretty well anyway.

The open question is whether it may be helpful to students learning
a language for the first time. I don't have an opinion on that. I
simply don't know, and there is no point in guessing when in fact I
suspect there are plenty of people who do have experience they can
relate (probably they are not readers of this list, where this
topic is only marginally on topic :-)
> 
> best regards,
> Tolga Dalman