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Written by Joe Groff on 2025-01-24 at 20:51

TIL there is at least one french programming language with french keywords https://www.afs.enea.it/software/caste3m/index6c94.html?page=exemples&exemple=1ddl

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Written by Joe Groff on 2025-01-25 at 01:44

the dream of AppleScript dialects is alive in France https://pcsoft.fr/wlangage.htm

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Written by YOCKOW on 2025-01-25 at 03:04

@joe

I remember AppleScript on 漢字Talk:

もし「持ち物」が0ならば
    “持ち物がありません”をボタンリスト：｛“OK”｝、デフォルトボタン：“OK”で表示する
以上

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Written by Joe Groff on 2025-01-25 at 03:49

@YOCKOW oh interesting, I didn’t know that any dialects besides the English one actually shipped

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Written by Miguel Arroz on 2025-01-25 at 08:00

@joe @YOCKOW I could swear back in the day the French dialect shipped but a few years ago I dedicated some time to search for it and didn’t find any proof it actually happened. But it was pretty cool, AFAIK the only language actually used in the wild to support this.

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Toot

Written by YOCKOW on 2025-01-25 at 08:19

@arroz @joe

Yeah, come to think of it, one of the intriguing things was that three-letter keyword "try" was translated into long Japanese "エラーにそなえて".

I think someone literally tried to make it a natural language.

https://www.drycarbon.com/applescript/manuals/handlers/handler_etc.html#try

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Descendants

Written by Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh) on 2025-01-25 at 09:02

@YOCKOW @arroz @joe This reminds me of localizing software that just made every UI element long enough for the longest of all translations. It really surprised me that “Cancel” in Japanese was even longer than German “Abbrechen”.

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