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Extinction Of Human Languages Affects Programming?

Posted by simoniker on from the look-back-to-look-forward dept.

Tanmay Kudyadi writes "An article from NewScientist.com reports that half of all human languages will have disappeared by the end of the century, as smaller societies are assimilated into national and global cultures. This may be great news if one is looking at a common standard for communication, but it dosen't help those designing the next generation of programming languages. For example, there's an extremely strong link between Panini's Grammar and computer science (PDF link), and with every language lost, there is a possibility that we may have missed an opportunity at improving the underlying heuristics."

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  1. Soon to come, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    the extinction of French Canadians? Sorry Kaybeckers, but we all knew this was coming. Don't worry, you'll leave a legacy of rudeness and poutine to last till the end of the world.

  2. Re:Um shutup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    Fuck off with your gay snippets of code. It doesn't make you look "leet", it makes you look desperate, jackass.

  3. Re:Um shutup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    retard

  4. Re:Um shutup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "You might say something funny eventually" No he won't. It'd be better for all of us if he just shut the fuck up and went away.

  5. Stupid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is the stupidest thing I've read in a long time.

  6. Re:Humbug by sparklingfruit · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, an incomprehensible bracket spaghetti of recursive, inefficient, zeolotrous poetry.

  7. Re:Hard To Believe by Acidic_Diarrhea · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Bullshit.

    Here's an introduction for idiots: hopefully it won't go over your head.

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