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Rules as Code is an emerging field with law is annotated with a structured and compliable representation. The target has hithertoo been calculation libraries for social security/ta…

I should also point out that there are half a dozen different Esperanto speakers commenting in Espera to on this thread

Esperantujo is Esperanto events

From a practical perspective - the nearest Uni was St Petersburg - if you had to guess how many comparative grammers of say Russian/Ndebele Russian/Cherokee Russian/Urdu were avail…

Except a couple of million speak it - to a degree - and it has been going organically for over a century and shows no sign of dying

For an amateur, living at the fringes of both Europe and the Russian empire, I think the boy Zamenhof done good for the 19th century

'designed without a global audience in mind' - it was exactly designed with a global audience in mind - but I think Zemnhof didn't have the exposure to the width of linguistic rese…

My mum used to say to me and my brothers "what's your name Pa'erson with 2 tees" whenever we said bu'er or wa'er - I can assure you that the glottal stop is widely used in dialects…

And the case system differentiates between indirect objects of motion and position (like Polish) and doesn't have a genitive (which German does) And also English has like 12-16 vow…

Except that Zamenhof spoke Slavic languages as a native - and not German nor English - and specifically chose Romance languages to relexify - there is no discernable German or Engl…

I just turned on the sofa and asked my Orla if she thought Alexa in Esperanto would be a good idea and to my surprise she said yes ;-)

Except that there is a Slavic continuum. The spoken language of the border is Polish if written in the (catholic) Latin-derived script and (orthodox) Belorussian if written in Cyri…

Not often Esperantists get accused of living in the future tho ;-)

It clearly is a Western Slavonic language relexified into Romance - the orthography has the characteristic Slavic 1 symbol/1 sound and is distinctly Hussite (ie accents on a short …

A 10 word sentence has 10! possible word orders of which only 1 is correct - that is grammer

Historically we were taught Latin grammer disguised as English grammer - so 'tenses' when English only has two tenses (past and present) and 6 or more moods (shall, could, will, mi…

Compared to working from a book it is ace - you get listening, speaking, reading and writing and it gets you where you want to be I did the first three levels of Ukranian and when …

Well I'm an Erlang enthusiast not an APL one, my APL experience is reading a manual for 4 hours on a plane and 4 hours writing APL There are a squad of specific set related problem…

Riak the database so indestructable that is survives its parent companies demise is going into code freeze for its first post-bankruptcy release even as we speak

I am writing another post which will describe better the niche I think it should fill - an auxiliary language used to write library modules which would be called from applications …

I only tweeted it at my Erlang chums is why, didn't expect anyone else to care

But none of the examples I cite need 'high performance' (well CRDTs do) an expressive language for sets would remove accidental complexity and make more complex things simpler and …

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Minor politician, ya cheeky git ;-)