English Prevalence in Programming Languages

How come most programming languages use English in their syntax?

like define, goto, allocate, end, print, return, integer, if, then, else, define etc

Is it an attempt by the western world to increase its global reach, or is it just an auxiliary language?

>>1
Because english, as such, is a hilariously primitive language, so it fits quite perfectly as a grammar for programming languages.

Imagin e using german instead:


/* argz = argumentzähler, argv = argumentvektor */
integral hauptfunktion(integral argz, charakter* argv[])
{
    schreibe("Hallo Welt\n");
    kehrezurückmit 1; /* that isn't even possible as such with a single word in german */
}

Probably not so bad if you're german, but due to umlauts and the fact that german has a far more difficult grammar than english, it's not really worth the effort.

The same goes with french, czech, polish, russian... Although there have been programming languages that use russian, or indian exclusively. But those languages were usually intended to teach programming, and/or were domainbased languages.

All in all, english as tokens is just easier to implement.

>>4
'murrkan inbred faggot detected