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<p>I don't have any answers to this question, but here's a minor but
hopefully interesting point on a related topic... <br>
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<p>Developers catering for mainly British and Commonwealth audiences
were occasionally faced with the decision as to whether to
implement particular terms in British English, or in the US
English that was usually the basis of any existing precedent. This
was notably the case for the keyword COLOR/COLOUR in some
implementations of the Basic language for 8-bit microcomputers in
the 1980s, colour graphics being at that time largely a matter of
platform-specific hardware capabilities and thus entirely
unstandardised. <br>
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<p>Of the major British-originated platforms, both the Sinclair
Spectrum and Amstrad CPC series had platform-specific Basic
dialects which managed to avoid the issue entirely using
alternative terms such as INK – I don't know whether by
coincidence or design. The Dragon series simply used COLOR: its
Basic was apparently an almost unmodified implementation of the
Microsoft-originated Extended Color Basic. <br>
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<p>The spelling COLOUR was, however, used for the BBC Microcomputer
series, developed by Acorn for the national public broadcaster's
Computer Literacy Project and widely used in British schools.
Originally, COLOR was not recognised and would result in an error
message. In 1983, with Acorn making an (ultimately abortive)
effort to break into the American market, one of the very few
changes between versions 2 and 3 of BBC Basic was to accept COLOR
interchangeably with COLOUR. <br>
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<p>Since keywords were stored internally as tokens rather than in
full text, this resulted in a trivial but practical example of
automated international translation. Whichever spelling the
programmer used, the command to LIST the program would show COLOUR
consistently on the default installation and COLOR on the US
export model. <br>
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<p>All best<br>
James<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/08/2019 04:19, Eji Layo wrote:<br>
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I've been curious about a particular question for sometime.
After reading the works of various authours in the history of
computing field, I directed my questions to the authours. I
was then made aware of the SIGCIS. To the question...</p>
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<p
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the English language become the "default" language for
computer programming. Why do Python, C, C++, ALGOL, Java,
COBOL etc. borrow their natural language commands from
English? I am especially curious about the way this came
about after the Second World War. The era of the
cold-war seems to have presented an opportunity for
states like the USSR, East/West Germany and the Scandinavian
countries to benefit from pushing an international (or
national) language for programming.</span><span
style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple
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Symbol","Android
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know what members of this group think of this question? </span></p>
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<p
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style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple
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Symbol","Android
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questions include - Why did ALGOL's implementation (despite
its 3 levels of description) not accommodate the diversity
of linguistic representation of those who subsequently
participated in developing it? </span><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,EmojiFont,"Apple
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am curious to know if IBM's SHARE user group's hesitation to
ALGOL may have resulted in how it was received globally.</span><span
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imagine that standards </span><span
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practices</span><span
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played a part in this process and I wonder how that may have
occurred? Finally Grace Hopper's speech in Wexelblat's ACM's
History of Programming Languages, implied that COBOL's
success came from work she did showing that an interpreter
could help in compiling the multi-lingual expressions of the
same commands. Again why did this not become the reality of
contemporary "mainstream" programming? Any clues would be
helpful. Thank you.</span></p>
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