Are there any major languages whose keywords, functions etc. are not in English? Not wrappers or locales, but the original language.
There's no particular reason why they have to be. Learning the syntax of open(arg1, arg2, arg3) is far more important than whether the function is open(), ouvrir() or abrir(). But all the languages I have come across are "in" English.
I Googled "non-english programming language" and look what I found!
APL :) It's not in any spoken language (other than APL)
Also Brainf*ck. Also with no connection to any spoken language
Could argue that LOLcode is enough of a perversion of english to not be english, at least my english teachers would say so.
None that I'm aware of. I once had to work on some BASIC code where the comments and strings were in Hebrew (apologies if I offend anyone if Hebrew isn't actually a language - I don't have the inclination to research at 7 in the morning).
It was a mongrel to understand and debug since it was in the days before Babelfish, and it looked quite funny, switching languages in the middle of code.
Still, I suppose it's no different to my Greek buddies when they fluently alternate between English and Greek on the phone.
Before this closes again, I'll post one more (which, as it happens, I got from the post linked by @BoltBait who wanted to close this, ironically enough).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexico
Apparently, it's a .NET based OO programming language designed specifically for Spanish-speaking students.
This is not exactly what was asked for, but it changed the C64 interface to German (I believe that includes the BASIC commands etc).
I know of a particular language called WinDev, where the keywords are in french, although it seems that an englisch version is now available as well
I'll suggest sed, since its operators are all single letters. While many of them could be construed as deriving from the initials of English words ('p' for 'print'; 'd' for 'delete'), several aren't obviously derived from anything related ('s', 'y', 'g', etc.). And yes, sed is a major programming language, though not one that's often used for general purposes.
I started working on CEDSimply and got side tracked by a scary reading list (I missed out on the compiler and language units in my degree) then I started using Ruby and I'm waiting until my Ruby gurudom kicks in.
Kay Schluehr was inspired to create Teuton by my posting, Python in German.
Then there's chinesepython.
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