Algol 68, one of the grand failures in programming language history, allowed for multiple representations of the same source code, including allowing for each n

Algol 68, one of the grand failures in programming language history, allowed for multiple representations of the same source code, including allowing for each natural language to define its own set of keywords. You can see a code sample with English or German keywords in the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_68 Just to be clear, I consider this to be an argument against the idea.