> The potential to use different keywords, line terminators, and other
> syntax of your choosing and have it be completely isolated to your
> environment. No other developer is affected".

Microsoft already "pioneered" that, a VBA macro in Danish would use
"Hvis" rather then "If". ;)

> Youv'e got to write IDE support for this. Building this new language
> requires also building an IDE plugin that understands it".

And that probably explains why it hasn't been done before, a chicken
and egg problem. It does not feel like a very long time ago Sun had no
interest in IDE's - thankfully that changed with NetBeans.

> Two developers working on their own machines would see the code
> views they expect. One developer trying to help a second developer on
> his machine would see a view completely unfamiliar to what they expect.

So change the rendering profile up in View -> Code Style to Allman,
K&R, Tor Norbye or whatever rocks your boat. :)

/Casper
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