why sanskrit is suited for being a computer language - suitability of sanskrit for AI

[pk sharma]

since you are circulating the .pdf document of Rick Briggs and

doing some further work on the subject line above, i am copying

and pasting my entire set of postings to the TECHNICAL-HINDI

group on google

 

this should help indians to firm up their knowledge and confidence

when saying that sanskrit is suitable for "being used as a computer 

language" (actually suitable for writing computer codes !)

 

some advice : please don't ask for "opinions" about this .. try to

accept this as a fact (as per the few proofs mentioned below

from some authoritative sources .. there are more proofs from

modern talks/papers/sources of 21st century .. serious work

IS being done too !)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Nov 1, 11:08 pm, "pk sharma" <pksharmakolk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> something like this would help :
>
> (why sanskrit is suited to be a computer language and for Artificial Intelligence)
>
> http://www.vedicsciences.net/articles/sanskrit-nasa.html
>
> Sanskrit & Artificial Intelligence - NASA
> Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence
> by
> Rick Briggs
> Roacs, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

from : http://www.vedicsciences.net/articles/sanskrit-enlightenment.html

The endings are what make Sans-krit a language of mathematic-like
precision. By the endings added onto nouns or verbs, there is an
obvious determination of the precise interrelationship of words
describing the activity of persons and things in time and space,
regardless of word order. Essentially, the endings constitute the
"software" of the basic program of the language,

 and once a pattern has been noted, it is a simple exercise to
recognize all the individual instances that fit the pattern rather
than see the pattern after all the individual instances have been
learned.

Perhaps the greatest hope for the return of San skrit lies in
computers. It's precision play with computer tools could awaken the
capacity in human beings to utilize their innate higher mental faculty
with a momentum that could inevitably transform the world.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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-sanskrit-academy/P3/



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.

[peekay]

more on this :

from the webpage : www.eswaraindia.org...

which gives details about lecture on :

VEDAS AND COMPUTERS
by Shri. RVSS Avadhanulu,
Deputy Director(Computers)
Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences
Hyderabad


... Mimamsa Nyaya Prakasa.

It was noticed that several scientific aspects of computer software
are embedded in Vedas and Sastras almost in the same form.

The approach of compilers in translating the statements of computer
languages is found to closely follow the approach of Mimamsa in its
Vakyartha vicarana.

It is also observed that certain aspects, which are well established
in Mimamsa are not yet implemented in computers. The work on Vedas and
Computers is a humble beginning in the direction of highlighting the
parallels of both the systems and exploring the utility of Vedic
system for furtherance of modern computer technology.


(note : this gentleman is not a journalist ! he is Dy.Director
(Computers)
of a reputable University in Hyderabad .. the city which is next only
to Bangalore in matters of Information Technology )

> from :http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Magazine/story/melkote-sanskri...

[peekay]

another link .. kak's paper on the same subject :

www.ece.isu.edu/kak/bhate.pdf

(now any indian can talk on the basis of
research data, papers instead of just vague
impressions about sanskrit's usability of pc's)