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How common are programming languages designed with base languages other than english? This is the first one i’ve seen.

• ahamez 6y ago
  IIRC, AppleScript was once usable in languages other than English.
  • ygra 6y ago
    Whether it's actually _designed_ with those languages in mind is a different question. VBA (in)famously was also translated for non-English versions of Office, but that only involved replacing the keywords by translated ones in the other language. German VBA read _very_ weirdly to me, back then.
• gabordemooij 6y ago
  Well there is Citrine: https://citrine-lang.org/ https://citrine-lang.org/ - it offers a specialized version for over 110 human languages.
• dmt0 6y ago
  Apparently there are a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
• bobochan 6y ago
  This is a different take, but I have always been a huge fan of Damian Conway's Lingua::Romana::Perligata, a thought experiment in writing Perl in Latin. Just a taste from the documentation: "To simplify the mind-numbingly complex rules of declension and conjugation that govern inflexions in Latin, Perligata treats all user-defined scalar and array variables as neuter nouns of the second declension -- singular for scalars, plural for arrays."
• krylon 6y ago
  I vaguely remember reading about an esoteric programming language that was based on Klingon. IIRC, it was a functional language. (-: But I do not speak or read or write Klingon, so I never looked at it, and I do not remember the name, either. It did make me chuckle, though.