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Because of its rich case system, Latin has fairly free word order. This makes it much easier to parse programmatically than, for example, English, which has to
by compay 16y ago
Because of its rich case system, Latin has fairly free word order. This makes it much easier to parse programmatically than, for example, English, which has to mostly rely on word order and prepositions to indicate subjects and objects. The lack of machine translation tools for Latin has more to do with lack of demand than the technical challenge.
- ben1040 16y ago>Because of its rich case system, Latin has fairly free word order. This makes it much easier to parse programmatically From seeing this, I couldn't help but think of the Perl language filter Lingua::Romana::Perligata by Damian Conway. http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Lingua-Romana-Perligata-0.50/lib/Lingua/Romana/Perligata.pm http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Lingua-Romana-Perligata-0.50... Word order in statements means nothing and case means everything -- lvalues, for example, are designated as such by being in the dative case. It's not terribly useful for writing real code, but it certainly was a great cerebral exercise just to read the manpage (it's been 15 years since I took high school Latin and I realized I remembered more of it than I thought!).
- compay 16y agoHa, that's very cool, never saw that before. Thanks for posting.