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Yes, this is the pragmatic answer.

Apple's HyperCard had a French dialect, and AppleScript followed with one too. It was short-lived but did provide a window as to how these programming languages might have looked like had they originated in a non-English world.

A fun factoid I just discovered: on March 11, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs an executive order mandating that ASCII be adopted as a federal information processing standard for electronic data interchange between federal agencies. This order was known as... Executive Order 11110 :)

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Do you have a source for the executive order claim? I can't find it on this list of executive orders signed by Lydon Johnson, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_executive_actions_by... . And as far as I can tell the claim originates on ascii-code.com and spread from there?

Googling executive order 11110 gives no primary information.

Edit: found it https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/memorandum-approvi...

It's just not an executive order as far as I can tell. Not an expert on US governance by any means though.

Edit 2: I mixed up Executive orders and Actions it seems?

From a quick search it seems this was a Presidential Memorandum not an Executive Action.

“Executive orders are generally more formal, require publication in the Federal Register, and must cite the President's legal authority, while memoranda are less formal, may not be published, and do not always require a justification of authority.”

These sometimes get called executive orders, like some memos that trump has signed in the last few months were called executive orders by the news and online.

They are essentially the same though. Memos carry legal weight and can direct agencies to carry out specific actions.

The 11110 thing is a myth, though. The closest that we get to that is that it is number 127 in the NARA's catalogue of the Johnson's public papers for 1968.

* https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PPP-1968-book1

Thank you for the correction.

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