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MacroRodent

Programming languages not based on English/American 

In Dot, squiggle, plop

Of course there are such things, and have been for a long time, but for obvious reasons our English-speaking editor has never heard of them. They tend to remain local to their "linguistic area", and even there are just a small niche for elementary programing education, or end-user scripting. Major programing projects need sophisticated tools with a larger base of both tools and experienced developers, which these local languages normally lack.

I'm aware of one case where non-English based language was used for big things: a lot of public administration software in Finland used to be written in "FAS", which according to some examples I have seen (punched cards reused as children's hobby material!) used keywords based on Finnish. [By the way, does anyone else reading this know of a good reference for the language? There is very little about it on the net]

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