On 11/19/2012 2:56 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
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.
Interesting. I didn't know that. Japanese is written with no
interword separators also.
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