The Programming Language Called Classical Chinese [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBhg2p8aAQ0

by luu • 11 years ago

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kinosang• 11 years ago

As a Chinese, I think it's wonderful but there are some mistake with part-of-speech.

pygy_• 11 years ago

As a non-Chinese, I would love if you could expand on that comment :-)

Does it change the general point?

voaie• 11 years ago

Well, it is obvious that the CFG model (of core grammar) is over simplified in the speech and somewhat misleading even though there is ambiguity in it. Anyway, it is just a simple talk. But I think the speaker is not really talking about programming language but more about computational linguistics...

amalag• 11 years ago

The worlds first context free grammar is that of Panini and his description of Sanskrit around 2500 years ago.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_Form

The idea of describing the structure of language using rewriting rules can be traced back to at least the work of Pāṇini (who lived sometime between the 7th and 4th century BC). His notation to describe Sanskrit word structure notation is equivalent in power to that of Backus and has many similar properties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini

Comparison with modern formal systems Pāṇini's grammar is the world's first formal system, developed well before the 19th century innovations of Gottlob Frege and the subsequent development of mathematical logic. In designing his grammar, Pāṇini used the method of "auxiliary symbols", in which new affixes are designated to mark syntactic categories and the control of grammatical derivations. This technique, rediscovered by the logician Emil Post, became a standard method in the design of computer programming languages. Sanskritists now accept that Pāṇini's linguistic apparatus is well-described as an "applied" Post system. Considerable evidence shows ancient mastery of context-sensitive grammars, and a general ability to solve many complex problems. Frits Staal has written that "Panini is the Indian Euclid."

The Programming Language Called Classical Chinese [video]

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