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That heading gave me a great idea for the PHP language maintainers/devs: Make your language support keywords depending on the locale of the system the interpreter/compiler runs on! Users will love this "feature"!

(I hope no one in their right mind takes this idea serious.)

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Excel. At least kind of.

US: SUM(...) FR: BAGUETTE(...)

RU: СУММ(...)

For additional fun, the cell names still use Latin letters so you have to constantly switch your keyboard layout from Latin to Cyrillic to Latin back to Cyrillic back to... or pick the cells and ranges with your mouse.

Golly, I wonder why they didn't reuse this approach when they translated Excel to Japanese and Chinese.

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