On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:06:51PM +0000, Steve Simon wrote:
on the subject of fortran’s language, i remember hearing tell of a French version. anyone
ever meet any?
Never heard of a French version of Fortran, but you may have been confused
with LSE (Langage Symbolique d'Enseignement, aka Symbolic Language for
Education), which was a BASIC variant with French keywords.
Kind of weird, never used it, but it was popular in the 1970s in France.
English Wikipeda page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSE_(programming_language)
More complete French Wikipedia page:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSE_(langage)
Pierre