Hello, There was thread about internationalisation of python (the language itself) in the case specific case of brasilian portuguese. I stepped on the following paper about a Perl dialect in latin! http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html which I found great, especially because they explicitely address both question of why and how (very rare): Abstract This paper describes a Perl module -- Lingua::Romana::Perligata -- that makes it possible to write Perl programs in Latin. A plausible rationale for wanting to do such a thing is provided, along with a comprehensive overview of the syntax and semantics of Latinized Perl. The paper also explains the special source filtering and parsing techniques required to efficiently interpret a programming language in which the syntax is (largely) non-positional. Denis PS: This paper comes from a site mainly devoted to teaching of programming that also holds the following perl (sic): "Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design" Abstract We discuss seven undesirable features common to many programming languages used to teach first-time programmers, and illustrate typical pedagogical difficulties which stem from them with examples drawn from the programming languages ABC, Ada, C, C++, Eiffel, Haskell, LISP, Modula 3, Pascal, Prolog, Scheme, and Turing. We propose seven language design (or selection) principles which may reduce the incidence of such undesirable features. http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/PDF/SevenDeadlySins.pdf Actually the whole site is a golden mine for anybody, I guess, interested in PL design and/or pedagogy. ------ la vita e estrany