Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <8b0a868e.0302050312.7875a79e@posting.google.com>,
Ruud Baltissen <Ruud.Baltissen@abp.nl> wrote:
 
> Hallo Lee;
> 
>> I'll quit here for now, and see what others think.
> 
> People with another native language than English have one
> disadvantage: all programming languages I know are based on English.
 
Then you don't know APL....
 
...and what about machine language?  No, not assembler mnemonics,
but the raw machine language, in binary, directly !!!!
 
BTW a Swedish friend of mine once, on an Apple II+, moved the
Applesoft interpreter to the RAM card, and there modified the
keywords and the error messages to their Swedish equivalents.
The effect was weird: since almost all Applesoft programs were
stored in tokenized form, when loading and LIST'ing them, the
keywords got translated to Swedish automatically!!!
 
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