Re: International Algorithmic Language

[John Gluth <jpgluth@ccgate.hac.com>]

In article <5s7tpq$gjt@nntp.seflin.org> Ralph Silverman,
z007400b@bc.seflin.org writes:
>internationalization of algorithmic language
>
>	one good idea involved in
>		the 'c' programming language
>	is the replacement of 'eurocentric'
>	expressions in the 'operational heart'

----o< snip o<----

>	thus
>	/* code here ... */
>	<>{
>	 /* code here ... */
>	?( >= i TOP05 ) ~<>;
>	} /* <> */


This is something of a lowest common denominator approach, isn't it?

Let's see, we'll take all the 'eurocentric' words out, and make a 
program that is, in effect, unreadable by anyone but a machine
(or someone with a really high nerd quotient).

If you're going to that much trouble, why not just right machine
code?  Then you get the hard to read part and absolute control...
(Or are ascii characters too eurocentric?)