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From: peekay <pksharmakolk
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Date: Nov 4, 7:09 pm
Subject: how/why sanskrit is suitable for programming computers
To: Scientific and Technical Hindi (वैज्ञानिक तथा तकनीकी हिन्दी)
more on why sanskrit is suitable for computer coding .. '
view of prof. Lakshmi Thathachar, melkote, india
from :http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Magazine/story/melkote-
sanskri...
for those who are in the programming profession OOP
is the key word
for those who are not in the programming profession,
Object Oriented Programming is a method of coding
where 'classes' are a quality ascribed to "objects"
"The current time in human history is ripe, he feels for India's young
techno wizards to turn to researching Mimamsa and developing the
ultimate programming language around it"
It was Panini who formalised Sanskrit's grammer and usage about 2500
years ago. No new 'classes' have needed to be added to it since then.
"Panini should be thought of as the forerunner of the modern formal
language theory used to specify computer languages," say J J O'Connor
and E F Robertson. Their article also quotes: "Sanskrit's potential
for scientific use was greatly enhanced as a result of the thorough
systemisation of its grammar by Panini. ... On the basis of just under
4000 sutras [rules expressed as aphorisms ], he built virtually the
whole structure of the Sanskrit language, whose general 'shape' hardly
changed for the next two thousand years."
Every 'philosophy' in Sanskrit is in fact a 'theory of everything'.
[The many strands are synthesised in Vedanta --Veda + anta--, which
means the 'last word in Vedas'.] Mimamsa, which is a part of the
Vedas, even ignores the God idea. The reality as we know was not
created by anyone --it always was--, but may be shaped by everyone out
of free will. Which is a way of saying --in OOP terms-- that you may
not touch the mother or core classes but may create any variety of
instances of them. It is significant that no new 'classes' have had to
be created. Thathachar believes it is not a 'language' as we know the
term but the only front-end to a huge, interlinked, analogue knowledge
base. The current time in human history is ripe, he feels for India's
young techno wizards to turn to researching Mimamsa and developing the
ultimate programming language around it; nay, an operating system
itself.
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