Ask HN: What would an OOP-style human language look like?

Posted by avancemos on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:06PM
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Re:Ask HN: What would an OOP-style human language look like? by dvndvn on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:33PM (#22783039)

For parametrically constructed language according to Noam Chomsky, Sanskrit was best constructed. Chomsky's work of language theory has inspired many compiler designs in early programming. He favored particularly Sanskrit grammarian called 'Panini' and his 500AD work called 'Ashtadyayi'

There was a huge discussion about 8 years back on HN itself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4729626

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Re:Ask HN: What would an OOP-style human language look like? by AnimalMuppet on Saturday April 04, 2020 @09:25PM (#22782989)

To me, variable.method(argument) looks a lot like "subject verb object".

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Re:Ask HN: What would an OOP-style human language look like? by _bxg1 on Sunday April 05, 2020 @01:38AM (#22783968)

Human language is already pretty OOP; I think that's a big part of the latter's appeal. We speak in terms of categories, objects, and subject-verb-object clauses.

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