Two funny stories about Portuguese and programming language books: 1) my father once brought home from work a book about programming with dBase-II. The problem

Two funny stories about Portuguese and programming language books: 1) my father once brought home from work a book about programming with dBase-II. The problem was that they had not only translated all of the text but the program listings as well. I told him that if he tried typing in any of the examples it would not work at all. I wonder if anybody ever bothered trying it. 2) A company called Brascom was selling illegally imported Cromenco computers in Brazil with the name BR-1000. They decided to rename the Cromix operating system to BR-1000 as well. In the manual they simply replaced every instance of "cromix" with "br1000". A student complained that he couldn't get one of the examples in the manual to work, so I looked at it and noticed it had a "br1000(300);" system call in it, so I suggested that he try "cromix(300);" instead. It now compiled and ran just fine.