{"id":469,"date":"2004-07-18T21:13:56","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T01:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=469"},"modified":"2004-07-18T21:13:56","modified_gmt":"2004-07-19T01:13:56","slug":"perlingata-latin-perl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Perlingata: Latin Perl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a title=\"join-the-dots \u00aa perligata\" href=\"http:\/\/www.srcf.ucam.org\/~hmw26\/join-the-dots\/2004\/07\/08\/perligata\/#comments\">join-the-dots<\/a>: <a title=\"search.cpan.org: The CPAN Search Site\" href=\"http:\/\/search.cpan.org\/~dconway\/Lingua-Romana-Perligata-0.50\/lib\/Lingua\/Romana\/Perligata.pm\">Perlingata<\/a>, a Perl module for writing in Latin. For a paper on it, see <a title=\"Perligata -- Perl for the XXIimum Century\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csse.monash.edu.au\/~damian\/papers\/HTML\/Perligata.html\">Lingua::Romana::Perligata &#8212; Perl for the XXIimum Century<\/a>.<br \/>\nCould languages and linguistics contribute to computer language design?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHere are some quotes from the rationale:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Compared to other languages (both modern and ancient), English has a comparatively weak lexical structure. Much of the grammatical load of an English sentence is carried by positional cues. A statement such as &#8220;The boy gave the dog the food&#8221; only makes sense because of the convention that the subject precedes the verb, which precedes the indirect object, which precedes the direct object. Changing the order &#8212; &#8220;The food gave the boy the dog&#8221; &#8212; changes the meaning. &#8230;<br \/>\nGenerally speaking, older natural languages have richer lexical structures (such as inflexions for noun number and case) and therefore rely less on word order. &#8230;<br \/>\nThere is no reason why programming languages could not also use inflexions, rather than position, to denote lexical roles. &#8230;<br \/>\nThis paper describes a new module &#8212; Lingua::Romana::Perligata &#8212; that explores an alternative syntactic binding for Perl, using inflexions based on classical Latin grammar. (Damian Conway, Lingua::Romana::Perligata &#8212; Perl for the XXI-imum Century, http:\/\/www.csse.monash.edu.au\/~damian\/papers\/HTML\/Perligata.html)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From join-the-dots: Perlingata, a Perl module for writing in Latin. For a paper on it, see Lingua::Romana::Perligata &#8212; Perl for the XXIimum Century. Could languages and linguistics contribute to computer language design?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}