On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:12:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> In fact, I've come up with the same idea independently. Except I'd go a
> bit further and claim that only a native English speaker could possibly
> come up with the idea that irregularity is useful.
I'd say that only a linguist
Larry's approaching perl6 through the Programming Perl book (the Camel).
He's going chapter by chapter through the Camel, writing documents about
the perl6 equivalent concepts. These missives are known as "Apocalypses",
for reasons best known to Larry. :-)
He's churning through the RFCs, looking
Larry's approaching perl6 through the Programming Perl book (the Camel).
He's going chapter by chapter through the Camel, writing documents about
the perl6 equivalent concepts. These missives are known as "Apocalypses",
for reasons best known to Larry. :-)
He's churning through the RFCs, looking
At 12:00 PM 4/3/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:12:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> > In fact, I've come up with the same idea independently. Except I'd go a
> > bit further and claim that only a native English speaker could possibly
> > come up with the idea that ir
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:20:11PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Dunno--the older a language is, the more regular it seems to be. (The rough
> edges get worn off, I assume) While Latin had a reasonably complex set of
> rules, it was more regular than English. Japanese feels the same, though
> I'
> In my experience of Japanese (and other languages) it's quite the opposite.
> Speakers get lazy. They cut corners. They omit things. They corrupt verb
> forms. Latin was pretty regular; languages derived from it aren't.
Simon doesn't know anything about Japanese, though. ;)
The evolution of la
At 10:43 PM 4/3/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:20:11PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Dunno--the older a language is, the more regular it seems to be. (The
> rough
> > edges get worn off, I assume) While Latin had a reasonably complex set of
> > rules, it was more reg
