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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization (Was: Structured exception
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:57:29 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com> wrote in message
> news:51rhs3F1m1jliU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Randy Brukardt wrote:
> ...
>> It's difficult not to agree with the compiler example. Compiler errors are
>> certainly bothersome for me in Spanish, but because they're badly
>> translated and they difficult searches in google. An even worse example is
>> Excel, whose formulae are translated in Spanish versions! So you have
>> both "IF(;;)" and "SI(;;)" and so on, and both are accepted by the formula
>> engine. This is just mental.
> 
> This gave me a vision of a fully internationalized Ada program written in
> Cyrillic (or Chinese or Thai or ...). Just a mass of funny looking
> characters. Just imagine the portability!

Oh, Ada could become much "better" here!

German Excel (and I believe Russian as well) uses "," instead of "." in all
numbers. What a refreshing idea!

Following that path we could consider Maya and old Slavic numerals
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_numerals) for integer literals in Ada
programs. Should we? (:-)) 

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de