Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plateau of innovation in programming languages

Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com>
Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:18:52 +0200

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From: Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:18:52 +0200
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 12-03-012 12-03-014 12-06-008 12-06-010 12-06-013 12-06-014 12-06-029
Keywords: i18n
Posted-Date: 12 Jun 2012 00:50:16 EDT



Alex McDonald schrieb:


>> For an Arabic programming language, all bets are off.
>
> ! c + b a
>
> My first example reversed. The arity of the operators make it easy to
> parse left to right too; "Store in c the sum of a and b". It would be
> a trivial modification to a stack-based compiler to parse right to
> left.


Note: even Arabic text is *stored* in low-to-high address order, so
that there is no need for reverse parsing. It's only the GUI that
flips the strings and their horizontal alignments.


DoDi


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