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From: pdagog@gmail.com (Pierre DAVID)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 20:15:01 +0100
Subject: [TUHS] RIP John Backus
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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