BASIC is 50 years old!

[Massimo Gnerucci]

(04-14-2014 01:30 AM)Les Bell Wrote:  

(04-13-2014 09:57 AM)Marcus von Cube Wrote:  The problem is that this works fine if English is your mother tongue. But what if not?

I remember seeing an IBM 5100 at a trade show in Paris around 1976, that had all the BASIC keywords translated into French - "IMPRIME" instead of "PRINT", and so on. No doubt the Académie Française had a hand in that, but IBM may well have supported other languages as well.

I know of a COBOL mainframe implementation in french, too.