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by aramachandran7 1933 days ago
How common are programming languages designed with base languages other than english? This is the first one i’ve seen.
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IIRC, AppleScript was once usable in languages other than English.
Whether it's actually _designed_ with those languages in mind is a different question. VBA (in)famously was also translated for non-English versions of Office, but that only involved replacing the keywords by translated ones in the other language. German VBA read _very_ weirdly to me, back then.
This is a different take, but I have always been a huge fan of Damian Conway's Lingua::Romana::Perligata, a thought experiment in writing Perl in Latin.

Just a taste from the documentation: "To simplify the mind-numbingly complex rules of declension and conjugation that govern inflexions in Latin, Perligata treats all user-defined scalar and array variables as neuter nouns of the second declension -- singular for scalars, plural for arrays."

I vaguely remember reading about an esoteric programming language that was based on Klingon. IIRC, it was a functional language. (-:

But I do not speak or read or write Klingon, so I never looked at it, and I do not remember the name, either. It did make me chuckle, though.

Well there is Citrine: https://citrine-lang.org/ - it offers a specialized version for over 110 human languages.