Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!npeer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Lieven Marchand Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming languages Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:24:19 +0200 Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 23 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <12-06-023@comp.compilers> References: <12-03-012@comp.compilers> <12-03-014@comp.compilers> <12-06-008@comp.compilers> <12-06-012@comp.compilers> <12-06-015@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: leila.iecc.com 1339394816 48254 64.57.183.58 (11 Jun 2012 06:06:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 06:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: history Posted-Date: 11 Jun 2012 02:06:55 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com X-Received-Bytes: 1939 Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:684 Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson writes: > Can you make anything simpler if you add Latin grammar rules to your > language? I would say the Lingua::Romana::Perligata [0] experiment supports answering this one in the negative. Try to guess the algorithm implemented here: #! /usr/local/bin/perl -w use Lingua::Romana::Perligata; maximum inquementum tum biguttam egresso scribe. meo maximo vestibulo perlegamentum da. da duo tum maximum conscribementa meis listis. dum listis decapitamentum damentum nexto fac sic nextum tum novumversum scribe egresso. lista sic hoc recidementum nextum cis vannementa da listis. cis. [0] http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html