So short summary: This paper from the 1980's, by a researcher then associated with NASA Ames Research Center basically states that the Sanskrit linguistical and

So short summary: This paper from the 1980's, by a researcher then associated with NASA Ames Research Center basically states that the Sanskrit linguistical and grammatical traditions had mechanisms for describing words and their relations (between the 5th century BC, through the 15th century AD), that didn't make it to Western grammatical traditions until the mid 20th century. These same relations are those that were used in Artificial Intelligence linguistic models, and given that the Paninian grammar could fairly unambiguously represent Sanskrit, it would be possible to map Sanskrit into a programmatic model for natural language processing in computers. Note that through decades of misintepretation in the popular press, this has become, "Sanskrit is the ideal language for programming in computers, or even "NASA has endorsed Sanskrit as the ideal language for programming computers".