Re: Hypersimple & Dreadfully Unnatural Grammars
From: | charles <catty@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, March 17, 1999, 22:06 |
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" ...