From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7f4d16c4ee371eb5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Florian Weimer Subject: Re: Why is it Called a Package? Date: 2000/03/29 Message-ID: <87ya7285s3.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 603796067 References: <38DF7F38.8D656ABD@lmtas.lmco.com> <38DFB0BC.9FF72EFC@callnetuk.com> Mail-Copies-To: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@cygnus.argh.org X-Trace: deneb.cygnus.argh.org 954323388 19459 192.168.1.2 (29 Mar 2000 09:49:48 GMT) Organization: Penguin on board User-Agent: Gnus/5.0804 (Gnus v5.8.4) Emacs/20.6 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Florian Weimer NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Mar 2000 09:49:48 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-29T09:49:48+00:00 List-Id: Nick Roberts writes: > Of course, for all those poor souls whose native language is not > English, but who must program (Ada and other languages) in English, Ada is more liberal than other programming languages here because you can use non-ASCII characters in identifiers. (I wonder whether anyone actually does this, though...) BTW: Microsoft completely localized the version of Visual Basic for Applications which was part of Excel 5.0, including the keywords and the runtime library. I have no idea why they did this as it makes distributing code extremly painful. Perhaps they got the idea from spreadsheet formulas which are traditionally localized? In the end, they gradually reverted the localization (first, the keywords and the runtime library were left unlocalized, and the Excel object library finally followed, I think), but of course, this was causing quite a lot of problems on its own.