Ola's a super-smart dude and the language is well worth exploring––I learned a lot from playing with Ioke. One of the coolest parts of it is his experiments with translations––in a language with zero keywords and a very small core, creating user translations into (say) Hindi becomes extremely straightforward. There's a rarely-explored opportunity there to bring programming to non-English speakers around the world.
The problem is you need to translate all the core language, not only keywords, e.g. list map(root) fold(plus) -> elenco mappa(radice) ripiega(più).
Supporting localized keywords in a parser would be relatively straightforward and a much smaller job than translating the whole standard library in something intelligible, I believe.
