Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)
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Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)
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Re: Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)
#2Turkish is another dreadfully regular language, would make for a great programming language
Re: Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)
#3Korean characters "stack" on top of each other. I wonder if an array-oriented language like APL could be coaxed out of such a "dense representation."
Examples:
* ㅇ, 아, 안
* ㅇ, 오, 왜Re: Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)
#4Having spent the last 5 years learning Korean, I've grown to find it an incredibly efficient language.
맥주 한 잔 주세요 Beer one please
화장실은 어디에요? Toilet where?
와이파이 있어요? wifi is here?
You can process and even start answering someone before they've finished their sentence. By contrast in English, I'd say "Could I have another beer please?" - tell me what you need up front!
Re: Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)
#5Having spent the last 5 years learning Korean, I've grown to find it an incredibly efficient language. 맥주 한 잔 주세요 Beer one please 화장실은 어디에요? Toilet where? 와이파이 있어요? wifi is here? You can process and even start answering someone before they've finished their sentence. By contrast in English, I'd say "Could I have another beer please?" - tell me what you need up front!
Item specific counting suffixes are a pain though
Re: Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)
#6Having spent the last 5 years learning Korean, I've grown to find it an incredibly efficient language. 맥주 한 잔 주세요 Beer one please 화장실은 어디에요? Toilet where? 와이파이 있어요? wifi is here? You can process and even start answering someone before they've finished their sentence. By contrast in English, I'd say "Could I have another beer please?" - tell me what you need up front!
On the other hand, the question template build up can be useful when initiating contact with someone. They have the space of “Could I have…” or equivalent in other languages to get tuned in to the fact you’re asking a question. Much of speech comprehension is being able to anticipate what’s coming.
Re: Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)
#7Having spent the last 5 years learning Korean, I've grown to find it an incredibly efficient language. 맥주 한 잔 주세요 Beer one please 화장실은 어디에요? Toilet where? 와이파이 있어요? wifi is here? You can process and even start answering someone before they've finished their sentence. By contrast in English, I'd say "Could I have another beer please?" - tell me what you need up front!
In English you can say "One beer please."
Re: Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)
#8Having spent the last 5 years learning Korean, I've grown to find it an incredibly efficient language. 맥주 한 잔 주세요 Beer one please 화장실은 어디에요? Toilet where? 와이파이 있어요? wifi is here? You can process and even start answering someone before they've finished their sentence. By contrast in English, I'd say "Could I have another beer please?" - tell me what you need up front!
In English you can say "One beer please."
Or “Beer me”.
Re: Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)
#9There might be something to this, but the way the author diagrams it all is almost incomprehensible.
Re: Korean as a Concatenative, Stack-Oriented Language (2017)
#10Having spent the last 5 years learning Korean, I've grown to find it an incredibly efficient language. 맥주 한 잔 주세요 Beer one please 화장실은 어디에요? Toilet where? 와이파이 있어요? wifi is here? You can process and even start answering someone before they've finished their sentence. By contrast in English, I'd say "Could I have another beer please?" - tell me what you need up front!
especially when you have great words like
눈물 = 눈 + 물 = eye + water = tears 물고기 = 물 + 고기 = water + meat = fish (although this only means the animal, not the food, which is weird. 생선 is the fish meat like cow v beef) 돼지고기 = 돼지 + 고기 = pig + meat = pork etc.
there is a lot of other examples I'm forgetting but its cool.
The modification of the verb root to denote tense and formality as well is pretty intuitive. Korean is a great language. The problematic things IMO are the counting of items and the uses of the Korean v Chinese number systems, plus the random Hanja here and there.