Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.42!gegeweb.eu!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!198.186.194.250.MISMATCH!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Hans-Peter Diettrich Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming languages Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:18:52 +0200 Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 18 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <12-06-033@comp.compilers> References: <12-03-012@comp.compilers> <12-03-014@comp.compilers> <12-06-008@comp.compilers> <12-06-010@comp.compilers> <12-06-013@comp.compilers> <12-06-014@comp.compilers> <12-06-029@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: leila.iecc.com 1339476616 47975 64.57.183.58 (12 Jun 2012 04:50:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 04:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: i18n Posted-Date: 12 Jun 2012 00:50:16 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:694 Alex McDonald schrieb: >> For an Arabic programming language, all bets are off. > > ! c + b a > > My first example reversed. The arity of the operators make it easy to > parse left to right too; "Store in c the sum of a and b". It would be > a trivial modification to a stack-based compiler to parse right to > left. Note: even Arabic text is *stored* in low-to-high address order, so that there is no need for reverse parsing. It's only the GUI that flips the strings and their horizontal alignments. DoDi