Re: OT: Auxlangs (was Re: "Esperanto V.2")

taliesin the storyteller skrev:

>>Whereas the corresponding program in Perl - the poster child for
>>illegibility - is a single line that says 'print "Hello, world!\n";'.
>>The only things you have to explain are the \n and maybe the
>>semicolon.
>
>
> Can't help myself - in Python that would be 'print "Hello, world!"', not
> even needing to explain a semicolon or a line shift :)
Does this mean that each statement has to be on a single
physical line in Python?  Imagine having to write this
(for weeding out unwanted results of my Kijeb vocab generator)
on a single line!  It would be almost non-human readable
-- says I who has made it a habit out of necessity to read
regular expressions and translate them into human language! :)

	if(
		/(^|, )[nñ]r/
		or /(^|, )s[nñ]r/
		or /(^|, )z[bdg]/	# no initial *zC
		or /(^|, )s?[pbmfw]y/	# no isosyllabic labial + *y
		or /r[$C]r/
		or /[$C]w$/		# no final -w clusters
		or /[$C]ry/		# no clusters with ry
		)


>
> Rexx interestingly uses "say" instead of "print", even more concise.
It *is* letters that come out, right?  Not sounds?

--
/BP 8^)>
--
Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se

    "Maybe" is a strange word.  When mum or dad says it
    it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
    means "no"!

                            (Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)

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