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Re:Non-English-based programming languages by k__ on Sunday June 30, 2019 @03:46PM (#20320086)
Wasn't it possible to programm in different languages in VB/A? At least some co-workers told me so.

Something about VB in German.

Re:Non-English-based programming languages by BrendanCoughlan on Sunday June 30, 2019 @04:56PM (#20320461)
Yep, VBA had localized keywords. The standard functions still were named in English though, so the weirdness didn't even buy significant localization.

Almost 20 years ago I wrote some Excel macros on an even then ancient Windows 3.1 computer with German Excel. I tried for Hungarian notation (as I said, almost 20 years ago) and used d for date. So the end date of some range was dEnde. D is also the first letter of Datei, which is German for file. So when I brought the Document to the boss's newer computer the program got translated but all the variables still had German names except for dEnde, which turned into EOF.