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wrote, in part:

I was just noting that I recognized the Monty Python reference...

but, as it happens, on my web page, I discuss a programming language which abides by a *strict* no reserved word principle. I haven't made the effort to include, yet, an appendix showing the alternate versions of the statement names for a variety of languages, but it was something I envisaged doing. With *no reserved words*, the fact that one's chosen variable name might be, say, the Croatian word for "if" or "print", recognized by the compiler in addition to the English versions of those keywords, would not matter. (I note that the fact that a capital A looks like a capital Greek Alpha, yet the small letters are visually distinct, creates the potential for confusion in case-insensitive variable names.)

After all, we speak English, and so we use English-language keywords in our programming language. What would be more natural than for everyone else to use words of their own language in their programming languages? It would, after all, make it easier for beginners in their countries to learn how to program.

And, of course, changing keywords on the *framework* of an existing language design is trivial. I only wonder why we *don't* usually see French, Italian, German, Polish, Turkish, and, yes, Hungarian, and even Greek, Russian, Armenian, and Georgian... and even Punjabi, Thai, and Tibetan... versions of FORTRAN, COBOL, and Algol.

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