Re: Hypersimple & Dreadfully Unnatural Grammars

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Carlos Thompson wrote:

> > The relation between high- and low-level programming languages
> > is similar in that most assembly langs are OV, etc.
>
> Aren't they VO?
>   add r1,r2
No, the r1 and r2 are like subject/object pronouns glued to the verb.
It might be like:

load r1, variable1
load r2, var2
add r1, r2

But I was really thinking more of subroutine calls sorta like:

push var1
push var2
call squareroot

Now if I could say "var1 wo var2 wa squareroot-imperative" ...