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From: John McCormick <mccormick@cs.uni.edu>
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Subject: Re: Ada for 1st year students
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I believe that Mike Feldman's former student, Arthur Vargas Lopes,
created an Ada 83 compiler or preprocessor with Portuguese keywords.

John

On Nov 4, 9:31=A0am, amado.al...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I'd suggest creating Portu-Ada, which uses Portuguese equivalents of th=
e
> > reserved words.
>
> Good idea. Lusoada. A couple problems thou:
>
> English syntax: Positive range is ...
> Portuguese syntax: intervalo Positivo =E9 ...
>
> Accents (e.g. =E9)
>
> Lots of other stuff to translate, viz. attribute names and standard
> identifiers (not only reserved words).
>
> But it's a interesting concept and I'll try to push it around here at
> Univ. *Lus=F3fona* (maybe we'll get support from the rector who is the
> inventor of the word no less).