On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, amado.alves@gmail.com wrote:

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|"> if Chooidooigoo then                                                   |
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|> is gobbledygook whether you speak both languages or not.                |
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|Convincing power high.                                                    |
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|> I'd suggest creating Portu-Ada, which uses Portuguese equivalents of the|
|> reserved words.                                                         |
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|Good idea. Lusoada. A couple problems thou:                               |
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|English syntax: Positive range is ...                                     |
|Portuguese syntax: intervalo Positivo é ...                               |
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|Accents (e.g. é)                                                          |
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|Lots of other stuff to translate, viz. attribute names and standard       |
|identifiers (not only reserved words).                                    |
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|But it's a interesting concept and I'll try to push it around here at     |
|Univ. *Lusófona* (maybe we'll get support from the rector who is the      |
|inventor of the word no less)."                                           |
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This apparently had been tried with French for an old version of
FORTRAN which is no longer being used, unlike French and Anglophonic
FORTRAN used by Francophones.