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From: Bill Klein on 10 Jul 2010 23:33
"Standard conforming" (even ISO, i.e. INTERNATIONAL) COBOL compilers all use
English keywords and syntax. Historically, there have been anumber of
"pre-" and "co-"processors for non-English syntax support. The IBM "CCCA"
productt was originally a preprocessor to allow for French language syntax.
Similarly, IBM offered "Kanji" support for user-defined words long before
general "DBCS" support came along.

Micro Focus is "infamous" for allow English (British) speclling for keywords
(e.g. Background-Colour, Initialise, etc).

"Alistair" <alistair(a)ld50macca.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:26a0bca1-96a1-4019-b01f-b944d4239e94(a)u26g2000yqu.googlegroups.com...
> The use of English and Spanish (I presume; No Habla Espanole) in this
> thread has made me wonder about the compilers used in non-English
> speaking countries: are they forced to use English or are there
> language options which allow the use of local languages?


From: Alistair on 11 Jul 2010 07:06
On Jul 11, 4:33 am, "Bill Klein" <wmkl...(a)noreply.ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
> "Standard conforming" (even ISO, i.e. INTERNATIONAL) COBOL compilers all use
> English keywords and syntax.  Historically, there have been anumber of
> "pre-" and "co-"processors for non-English syntax support.  The IBM "CCCA"
> productt was originally a preprocessor to allow for French language syntax.
> Similarly, IBM offered "Kanji" support for user-defined words long before
> general "DBCS" support came along.
>
> Micro Focus is "infamous" for allow English (British) speclling for keywords
> (e.g. Background-Colour, Initialise, etc).

I like the English (British) spellings; its the Americans who mis-
spell. It used to annoy me that I had to use the word "disk" to refer
to a disc and it gradually became common in GB to use the -k variant
in non-IT contexts until recently when I noticed the -c variant making
a come-back.
From: Howard Brazee on 12 Jul 2010 10:10
What is foo bar in Greek?

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than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison
From: Fritz Wuehler on 12 Jul 2010 20:31
> What is foo bar in Greek?

You need an APL keyboard for that.

From: Alistair on 13 Jul 2010 06:19
On Jul 13, 1:31 am, Fritz Wuehler
<fr...(a)spamexpire-201007.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> wrote:
> > What is foo bar in Greek?
>
> You need an APL keyboard for that.

According to Google, Foo Bar in Greek is:



Foo Bar.
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