Re: Internationalization of Lua

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Viacheslav Usov <via.usov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Some old BASIC dialects got translated too. IIRC that was one of the
>> reasons BASIC was so successful in Russian -- it was the only available
>> language that could be used on a screen that was displaying Cyrillic
>> characters.
>
> This is completely off-topic in this list, but.
>
> What you are saying is very likely not true. I'm not aware of any
> "translated" implementations of BASIC. All that I have personally seen in
> Russia and read about in Russian literature had English keywords. Some of
> them could use Cyrillic identifiers, and almost all could have Cyrillic
> chars in strings.

It's mostly true. I just had my history confused. It wasn't BASIC I
was thinking of (I was confusing VBA as Javier alluded to); it was
ALGOL-68 that was translated into Russian.

/s/ Adam