Re: Spoken programming language
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 3, 2009, 6:20 |
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On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 05:40, Vincent Pistelli <pva003@...> wrote:
> I don't think that you quite understand me. I meant that I wanted to make a
> human language based on programming syntax not the word variety.
How would you do that, though?
How would you distinguish between past and non-past, for example? (Or
is this a distinction you're not interested in making?)
How would you modify nouns ("the red apple" vs. "the green apple")?
Also, what kind of programming syntax would you use as a starting
point? So-called "imperative", as in BASIC? That doesn't seem to map
at well to me to spoken language. Something logic-based, as in Prolog?
We've already got loglangs such as Lojban, which perhaps come close
(and which show that concepts such as "noun" and "verb" need not be
universal).
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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