On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 02:54:07AM +0100, Ángel wrote: > On 2021-02-26 at 00:45 +0100, Mike Jonkmans wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 11:15:36PM +0100, Ángel wrote: > > > > Those grammars weren't all that different from yacc's grammar. > > Just simpler and incomplete. > > > > Minimal example: > > A Sentence can be "Pronoun Verb." or "Verb Pronoun?" > > Pronoun can be "I" or "You" etc. > > Verb would be "eat" or "walk". > > > > Sometimes you needed to 'parse' sentences in order to spell them > > correctly. > > TEchnically yes. A linguist will happily study that one. Also, you > could have someone used to yacc understanding and using your simplified > grammar. The other way around? Based on the average grammar given on > primary school? I don't think so.
I don't think that f.i. precedence was taught. Although you get that with arithmetic, which also has a grammar. Not sure if I knew that back then. I might though. > > > I expect people somewhat familiar with grammar constructs would rather > > > come from descriptions of commands or technical documentation if not > > > directly from a Linguistic, Mathematics or Computer Engineering > > > background. > > > Plus, the need to grasp concepts of variables and recursion must not be > > > undersestimated. > > > > It is always difficult to estimate the knowledge of your (reading) > > public. > > Heh, Sure. These are all unscientific estimations. > > > > > > > ¹ Or English, French, German… > > That is secondary school stuff (for the Dutch). > > I was trying to cover people which had their primary school on > different languages (and yes, it was a very limited, non-exhaustive > list) It is exactly the list of languages the Dutch are being teached. Apart from the optional Latin and Greek. > > As I recall there was less to do with grammar in those foreign > > languages. > > Interesting. I wonder if that was because their grammar are simpler or > just because it wasn't as present in the syllabus. I guess that, since the basic ideas of grammar had already been taught, it would not stand out anymore. > I wouldn't think French grammar to be simpler than English one, for > instance. French grammar was the most regular, iirc. English was the most irregular. The really easy thing with English though, is that it doesn't have all these male/female/neuter articles and nouns. > Can't give an opinion on your language though, it's all Dutch to me :-) It's Dutch to me too! > Best > Ángel Regards, Mike Jonkmans
