In article <mailman.4473.1249755333.8015.python-l...@python.org>, Rami Chowdhury <rami.chowdh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Most indian languages have a different >> grammer (compared to English). So i'm curious to see how that would be >> implemented in a parser > >+1 -- I'd be interested in seeing this too, although we have drifted >OT here and perhaps this conversation would be better had on Python- >list. The closest I've seen to a language being able to support >different grammatical structures is Perligata (http:// >www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html), does >Python have anything similar? . . . Yes and no.
There's considerably more to say on the subject than my own patience permits for now. Highlights, though: I regard it as a big deal whether a language permits Unicode in spelling variable names (Python 3 does, despite <URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2000-April/000133.html >, and presumably you know the situation in Perl); languages like Lisp, Forth, and Tcl have minimal syntax, and rich traditions of construction of problem-specific "little languages", so it's common in them to see, for example, object orientation modeled with a variety of lexical orders; and my own favorite "little-language" work in Python has generally modeled VSO human languages. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list