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Re:Study finds 'mother of all languages' (spoken in pre-hist... by ppod on Friday April 15, 2011 @05:55PM (#2452365)
statements would be morphemes wouldn't they? I think characters would be phonemes... perl?
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Re:Study finds 'mother of all languages' (spoken in pre-hist... by sp332 on Friday April 15, 2011 @07:15PM (#2452573)
APL, no doubt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_syntax_and_symbols#Monadic_... Here's a video that shows how to make Conway's Game of Life in a single line of APL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?fmt=18&v=a9xAKttWgP4
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Re:Study finds 'mother of all languages' (spoken in pre-hist... by JoeAltmaier on Friday April 15, 2011 @06:08PM (#2452416)
Assembler then - hundreds of opcode mnemonics. And you could actually make a case for it being the mother language.
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