Re: compiler for Chinese development language

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
19 Oct 2005 23:59:40 -0400

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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 19 Oct 2005 23:59:40 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 05-10-08505-10-096 05-10-107 05-10-126
Keywords: i18n
Posted-Date: 19 Oct 2005 23:59:40 EDT

Ken Rose wrote:
(snip regarding Russian inflection and program language keywords)


> I suppose that could have been corrected by having the scanner
> accept all the variants of a word as a single token, though that
> might take too big a bite out of the namespace, I suppose.


Another plus for languages without any reserved words, such as
Fortran and PL/I.


I still remember when I was first learning Fortran talking to someone
whose main complaint about it was that the compilers wouldn't accept
his FROMAT statements.


Also, a somewhat popular alias on unix systems:


alias mroe more


along with a few other variants of popular commands.


-- glen

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