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Rick
Briggs' paper published
in AI Magazine.
makes a case that natural languages are not that difficult to use for
computer programming. He cites Sanskrit as an example. He is of the
opinion:
''…...Understandably,
there is a widespread belief that natural languages are unsuitable
for the transmission of many ideas that artificial
languages
.…......But this dichotomy, which has served as a premise
underlying much work in the areas of linguistics and artificial
intelligence, is a false one. There is at least one language,
Sanskrit, which for the duration of almost 1000 years was a living
spoken language with a considerable literature of its own among the
accomplishments of the grammarians can be reckoned a method for
paraphrasing Sanskrit in a manner that is identical not only in
essence but in form with current work in Artificial
Intelligence.....''
Forbes
Magazine in 1987 reported that the root of Indo – European
Indo-Germanic languages - Sanskrit is most suitable for computer
software. Among all the ancient languages the Grammar and Philology
of Sanskrit is the most accurately documented in one of the best
written Grammars ever viz, the Panini's
Ashtadhyay
and its complements the
Artikas
of
Katyayana
and Patanjali's
MahbhaShyam.
Its
grammar
is such that it can be
used to build Natural Language Interfaces to Computers. Much research
needs to be done in this regard.
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Many
Germanic languages and their grammatical structure and intonations
have close similarity with Sanskrit which has preserved the the best
of Indian cultural ethos. Both Sanskrit is exceedingly rich in
literature dating back to more than 1200 years. Max Muller was a
great scholar in Sanskrit. He was one of the scholars who introduced
Sanskrit and its vast rich heritage to the western world.
This
language offers evidences with respect to
migration of human race across Asia and Europe. Whether it is computer friendly or not numerous Indian languages have their roots in Sanskrit. Among the Indian languages, Tamil, a well developed ancient language of Dravidian group has least influence of Sanskrit, a classical language
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_Sanskrit_is_the_best_language_for_computer
Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit and Artificial Intelligence by Rick Briggs
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