[JamesBrown]

It is an interesting concept, but I am not sure how feasible it is. The biggest issue I see is that when you start translating existing function names it becomes that much more difficult to find documentation on them. There is tons of documentation on the we on the programming languages we use, however even if you find a french language reference for C++ it will not have a definition for a 'si-puis" statement, only for an "if-then" statement.

I am a native English speaker, so I cannot comment on the difficulty of learning a programming language that is English based, however I regularly work on code written by non English speakers, and having all commands and keywords in a common language is what allows us to work across language barriers.