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Language vocabulary and syntax design has been influenced by how "fit" the terms are for use. Fitness includes the length. Now it's true that English is partic

Language vocabulary and syntax design has been influenced by how "fit" the terms are for use. Fitness includes the length. Now it's true that English is particularly full of short terms. But I wonder how a programming language would have evolved if one had chosen German (or another) language from the get go instead of having a translation

eru 2y ago
You could have a look at Plankalkül for a very early example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl
- ithkuil 2y ago
  unfortunately Plankalkül seems to only have single letter keywords