Re: Multilanguage (Was V5 availability)

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 10:10:26 -0500
I remember years ago coming across a French magazine.  I was browsing
through it, not understanding a word, when I came across a little
cartoon.  A little boy is getting ready for bed, and obviously he is
asking his mother to read him a bed time story.  In the next panel
she is reading a Basic language.

It had never occurred to me before, that Basic was English, and that
someone from a different country would have a much harder time 
programming in it.

For I = 1 to 10
   Print I
Next I

I wonder how difficult it would be for the compiler creators to have
different versions of compiler op codes for different languages?  I
don't think it would be that difficult, but it would add a great
complexity to the compilers.

Regards,

Jim Langston

From: barsa@barsaconsulting.com
Subject: Re: V5 availability

I'm a little late to join this thread, and I have no idea what it has too
do with the subject line (which I didn't change).

>From my experiences speaking throughout the world, I have learned that many
foreign AS/400 run English in addition to their native language.  (Some of
them run it was the primary language, others as the secondary language.

One of the reasons that I have heard this is that non-English speaking
folks complain about the quality if the translation They comment to me that
to write programs on an AS/400 , you just about have to speak English.  All
of the languages (exclude C if you will) are abbreviations of English.

Al



Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

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