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From: marc@noe.UUCP (Marc de Groot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth programmers and names
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Date: 2 Aug 89 17:07:35 GMT
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In article <8907241624.AA04114@jade.berkeley.edu> Forth Interest Group International List <FIGI-L%SCFVM.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu> writes:
>As a Dutchman myself, it strikes me how many names of you people
>are of Dutch origin.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but Koopman, Bouma
>and de Groot are definitely Dutch names!

My name is indeed Dutch.  I have noticed this myself.

I heard that Dutch (like German) has a sort of "reverse Polish" syntax,
with the verb often placed at the end of a sentence.

Is it true that Forth code can be written which reads pretty close
to "natural language" Dutch?
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