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Tomte · on Sept 8, 2016

MS actually did that with Visual Basic for Applications in Excel 95.

Umlaute in keywords, yay!

Example stolen from Wikipedia:

  Prüfe Fall wd
    Fall 1
      ' Auf Sonntag wird Datum vom letzten Freitag zurückgegeben
      VorherigerGeschaeftstag = dt - 2
    Fall 2
      ' Auf Montag wird Datum vom letzten Freitag zurückgegeben
      VorherigerGeschaeftstag = dt - 3
    Fall Sonst
      ' Andere Tage: vorheriges Datum wird zurückgegeben
      VorherigerGeschaeftstag = dt - 1
  Ende Prüfe

yessql · on Sept 8, 2016

Ugh, I did some VBA in Germany around 2000. So crazy that keywords were in German (and command and periods have different meanings in numbers). Totally unportable code.

brians · on Sept 8, 2016

That was a thing, for a while: ALGOL, COBOL, a few others had alternate keyword sets for non-English languages.

skocznymroczny · on Sept 8, 2016

I saw a "translation for C", which was a header that #defined the keywords to their local language equivalents