Re: conversion

[aek@vib.usr.pu.ru (Alexander Kopilovitch)]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

>(:-)) I would recommend you to take a look at Russian edition of
>revised report on ALGOL 68, with Cyrillic identifiers and keywords.
>Even a native Russian is unable to understand such a garbage.

Oh, yes. Those "Russian keywords" were great -;) . If I remember right, "file"
became "fund" (that is, if we translate that Russian keyword for "file" into
English we'll get "fund" or "foundation"). But generally (not for Algol 68
only, but everywhere) it always was the common way to understand "russified"
programming term: just guess how it was called in English.

>... Alone Russian has dozens of different code tables.

You exaggregate, I think - I believe that there are no more than 8-10 Cyrillic
code tables in current use -;) . There is surely no more than 4 Cyrillic code
tables for PC (including Windows, DOS, OS/2, Linux and various flavours of Unix),
other non-Russian computers (except IBM mainframes) add none. (Don't forget
that most of hardware/software "legacy" in Russia was completely and irreversibly
disappeared over past 15 years.)



Alexander Kopilovitch                      aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia