chattoraj
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Comment · 13 years ago
Comment · 13 years ago
pg wrote about this years ago.
>If you understand how compilers work, what's really going on is not so much that Lisp has a strange syntax as that Lisp has no syntax. You write programs in the parse trees that get generated within the compiler when other languages are parsed.
Comment · 13 years ago
Finnish is Uralic, not Indo-European.
Comment · 13 years ago
Listen to this man. Anyone who studies a dead language for “real-world gain” will probably end up disappointed.
The only real reason to learn is so you can read old books in that language. And you might get a few points of social prestige, but that alone generally won't make up for the hours and years you put into it.
Comment · 13 years ago
> You easy almost all languages have their roots from Sanskrit. The grammar rules for German and Finnish, for example, are a subset of Sanskrit.
Your claims are a subset of the “everything comes from India” school of BSology.[1]
German is related to Sanskrit but does not descend from it.[2] Finnish belongs to a different language family entirely.[3]
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5QgeCL1fs
Comment · 13 years ago
>isn't being held captive behind closed doors waiting for Sanskrit-speaking liberators
Over-dramatizing the other guy's statement does not constitute a response.
Even ignoring the religious angle, Sanskrit was the primary language of literature, science and philosophy in India for over a millennium. Surely a person might want to read some of that without being employed as a researcher.
(And before you ask, most of it hasn't been translated and will probably never be translated. See http://www.columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/faculty/directory/pollock_... )
Comment · 13 years ago
Feel like it’s worth highlighting this part of the post:
>There is no good reason to do this
I get that it’s a cool easter egg, but please, please don't do this.
Comment · 13 years ago
The site has a page on "Vimanika shastra"[1] ("Science of Flying Machines"), which is known to be a bullshit text from the 20th century[2].
Definitely a Hindutva site.
[1] https://sites.google.com/site/ancientbharat/aeronautics
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaim%C4%81nika_Sh%C4%81stra
Comment · 13 years ago
>stretching things beyond their limits.
There's a line between writing a chess program in SED and claiming it's a good idea.
Comment · 13 years ago
It isn't satire.
Comment · 13 years ago
Before someone makes the inevitable "Why are they spending money on this instead of fixing poverty?" argument:
The whole Mars mission costs about as much as making four Bollywood movies.
http://www.firstpost.com/india/ten-price-tags-to-put-isro-ma...
Comment · 13 years ago
>It is sufficient to prove a program correct - as long as your proof is not faulty!
This is unquestionable truth. Proof:
Proposition A(X): X is true in theory
Proposition B : For all X such that A(X), X is true in practice
Theoretically, there is no difference between theory and practice. ... (1)
Theoretically, statement B is true. [using (1)] ... (2)
Therefore, B is true in practice. [using (1) and (2)]
QED.
Comment · 13 years ago
Speaking of the ¥, notice how it's right under the |?
Early Japanese codepages put ¥ where ASCII has the backslash. Even today, on most (if not all) OSes render the \ as ¥ when using the Japanese locale.
Further reading: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/09/17/469941.as...
Comment · 13 years ago
Thanks for pointing these out. Looks like I need to reread the book.
Needless to say, every participant was from Pune...