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Re: Spoken programming language

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Saturday, January 3, 2009, 6:20
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, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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