>I seem to recall that there was a pre-compiler for writing COBOL in, say, French, that would translate the likes of:
>
>"ajutez A a B donnat C" -> "Add A to B giving C". (as an imagined example)
You could do that in VFP <g>:

#DEFINE POUR FOR
#DEFINE A TO
#DEFINE PROCHAINE NEXT

POUR x = 1 A 23
  ? x
PROCHAINE