Re: Aesthetics

Hi!

Edgard Bikelis writes:
> > Meanwhile, I had an idea about a special kind of syntax that is
> > parsable with a context-free parser, which I eventually added to S11,
> > and which also influenced the design of the font, because some
> > morpho-phonological processes were marked.
>
> I'm very fond of that kind of technological thing. I'm gathering courage to
> generate every form of every noun and verb, and then link it to my texts,
> and who knows what more. But... why a parseable syntax? I saw that in
> programming, but a human language is quite another thing.
Well, human language is not impossible and not necessarily unnatural
with a context-free syntax.  Because S11 was an engelang design, it
seemed like a good idea.  I even wrote the bison parser.  Further, I
am not alone with this kind of stuff...

>...
> I have just one language, for two years or so, and thinking about creating
> another is so hard... divorcing from all I already created, to build
> everything again, and different. That's brave... and 25 times seems quite a
> feat ; ).
Most numbers are very short sketches.  I just store everything in
files immediately, I am not using paper, and each file needs a name.
Some sketches are only 10 lines.

**Henrik