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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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"Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com> wrote in message
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> 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!

                         Randy.