Natural language
Hello all -
On this business of coding in 'natural language', has anybody thought of
Esperanto?
I am not an expert in that language or any language other than English. But
I had the experience of participating in a performance of a choral work with
the text in Esperanto a few years ago, and was surprised to note the number
of words, the syntactical structure, and other characteristics that were
similar to English and a few other languages to which I have been exposed.
Again, I know a few words in German, and a few words in Spanish, and a
*very* few words in French, but I can't carry on a conversation in any of
them. I've tried. I even have problems in Australian English and 'English'
English (as opposed to American English). As an amateur singer I have been
exposed to Hebrew, Russian, Chinese(Mandarin) and maybe one or two others.
I don't 'know' any of those languages but I could recognize some of the
structural similarities in Esperanto.
Somebody start a movement to program in Esperanto. You might trigger a
landslide.
Wally Riley
wryly at mindspring.com
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