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On Sun, 19 May 2024 15:32:49 -0600, John Savard wrote:

> If Algol was supposed to be an _international_ algorithmic language,
> why weren't its keywords taken from Latin or Esperanto, instead of
> English?

Much of its syntax came from mathematics, which is international.

Semi-related question: are there non-English equivalents for mathematical 
operators like “grad”, “div” and “curl”?