A few years ago there was a company in Australia that was developing a multilingual language called Protium Blue. The lead was someone named Diarmuid Pigott. As far as I can tell, the project has come to an end, but one can still find bits about the project, e.g. this:
http://www.qualitytesting.info/forum/topics/what-is-protium-project On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:03 PM, David Starner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 11:14 AM, J. Leslie Turriff > <[email protected]> wrote: > > All true; but do any languages allow for keywords (if, then, > else, do, while, > > until, end, iterate, leave, call return, exit,...) to be expressed in the > > programmer's locale? > > Both ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68 had compiler dependent source > representations, so the Europeans could use their own words for > keywords and use commas as decimal points. I'm pretty sure no one had > invented the concept of a user's locale yet, but it would probably > come configured for whatever local locale you wanted. (I assume for a > machine that cost $14 million in 1966, such adjustments could be made > for a single customer.) > > -- > Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero. > _______________________________________________ > Unicode mailing list > [email protected] > http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode >
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