At Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:28:44 -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > 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.
If regularity is what you want, nothing beats good old binary. The first alien communication we'll download will probably be written in it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
