>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 t

>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!).