* Dave Korn: > You're not the first person to come up with this idea, and you probably > won't be the last, but it's a misbegotten idea, and there's a very good reason > why it hasn't been done before, and that's not just "because nobody's thought > of it before you", but because it would basically destroy the software > industry.
It's still the industry standard for spreadsheet formulas. Microsoft tried to apply this principle to programming languages in early versions of Visual Basic For Applications. (WordBasic had just a localized run-time library, matching the localized menu structure.) This turned out to be very problematic, even before the increase in global communication across the Internet.
