Re: localized languages, was call by name

Glen,

>> I have wondered about what non-english speakers think about the
>> english keywords used in the usual programming languages.
>>
>> It might be that some use a preprocessor to replace language
appropriate
>> keywords, but I believe most just use the usual english words.

The results of the following experiment suggest that there is a lot of
natural language information in identifiers:
www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/accu07a.pdf

I have tried to get researchers from non-native English speaking
countries interested in investigating their country-mens use of native
language in source code.  This seems to be a touchy subject with
people claiming that developers in their country all knowing English
very well and using it 'properly' in code.