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Someone's already mentioned COBOL's ALTER X TO PROCEED TO Y, so I'll mention a programming language called COMAL. A friend with a C64 showed it to me, and it was very respectable for its time and the available resources; reminded me of BASIC09.

Apparently it was written by someone from Denmark, and there were commands to switch back and forth between English and Danish. I don't remember whether it was just for error messages or for those and for the language keywords as well; I want to say the latter.

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