On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:39:57 +0000, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > >It gets me all Lewis Carroll just thinking about it. I cannot even imagine >how to create something like that SQL in Finnish. Something so simple as >that, I cannot even think how a computer could parse it written in an >agglutinative language. Though I am a bear of very little brain, so I'm sure >it could be done. :-) > Wouldn't this be somewhat like FORTRAN, where the lexical analyzer first removes _all_[1] blanks, rendering the source code maximally agglutinative, then attempts to parse the mess so created?
[1] Well, except in quoted or counted text strings. >So to bring it a bit back on to topic, English can be weird, but sometimes >quite useful in its own way. > Classic Latin was written with no interword separators. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
