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Vikram Chandra's article was well written until the point where he fell to the seductive charms of 'Sanskrit is a programming language' line peddled by mostly,
by lsrinivas 4y ago
Vikram Chandra's article was well written until the point where he fell to the seductive charms of 'Sanskrit is a programming language' line peddled by mostly, though not all, non-Sanskritists.
- svat 4y agoWhere does he say that? What I could find was these two bits: > modern programmers would immediately compare the workings of Pāṇini’s rules to those of string functions in modern programming languages (this is not about Sanskrit as a language, but specifically about Pāṇini's rules which is analogous to a term-rewriting system / string functions / macros) and > to claim that Sanskrit would be a perfect language for computer programming.[46] This claim demonstrates an essential misunderstanding of what programming languages which goes against what you're saying.