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Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax



On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 22:37 GMT, Erik Steffl penned:
> 
>    english has a fairly simple a regular grammar so it's fairly easy
>    to create english based programming language - the basic control
>    structures are pretty much english sentences.
> 
>    This would be fairly hard todo in other languages that has more
>    irregular grammar (the ones I know anything about have a lot more
>    complicated/irregular grammar).

Hrm.  German and Latin are much more regular than English.  French is,
too, iirc.  English has a *lot* of irregularity.


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