Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!utrcgw.utc.COM!RAYBRO%UTRC From: RAYBRO%UTRC@utrcgw.utc.COM ("William R Brohinsky", ay) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: RE: Re: Forth programmers and names Message-ID: <8908071511.AA08780@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 7 Aug 89 13:08:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Forth Interest Group International List Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 Marc- I am not Dutch, nor German. My heritage is 50% Ukrainian. However, if the matter of language tendencies is merited, the time I spent learning Latin in High School (sadly, that school and many others in this country do not teach it at all, any longer) certainly left its mark. Latin also desires its verb at the end of the phrase or sentence. It also requires that the "programmer" match the "type" of adjective or adverb to the noun or verb. There is no compiler between the programmer and user to catch syntax errors, and (if you've ever had a conversation with someone from another country with a third party who knows both languages and interrupts constantly to correct errors, you know what I'm about to say) the presence of one would be a real nuisance. "Natural Language" Dutch is intriguing, but the syntax of Latin was relatively more double-entendre free (no human language will stay that way for long) in its classical form. Maybe that would make a good starting place, or a dreadful and bothersome redirection. Either way, I lack the linguistic skill to see. -raybro If I have an opinion, I am very careful with it. Usually...