From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-02-27T12:17:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11645] Re: Esperanto (was: trial balloon: Ruby desktop?)

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:11614] Re: Esperanto (was: trial balloon: Ruby desktop?)"
    on 01/02/27, Nick Bensema <nickb@fnord.io.com> writes:

|I can find at least oen feature that is quite the opposite of Japanese
|language/culture.
|
|For example, take expressions like "print if x == 3", where the
|conditional clause goes at the end of the sentence.  This feature is
|borrowed from Perl, and was invented to mimic English.  In Japanese,
|however, subordinate clauses like "if" and "while" can never be at the
|end of a sentence.

Well, it's seldom, but it can be.  "print suru no wa x == 3 no baai desu."
Trust me.  I'm really good at Japanese.  ;-)

							matz.