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Re: indirect object syntax (was Re: Revising the OO docs - take 2)Re: indirect object syntax (was Re: Revising the OO docs - take 2)Posted Jul 16, 2011 11:54 UTC (Sat) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)In reply to: Re: indirect object syntax (was Re: Revising the OO docs - take 2) by elanthis Parent article: Re: indirect object syntax (was Re: Revising the OO docs - take 2)
>Linguists shouldn't pretend be competent designers of computer languages.
Neither should computer language designers pretend to know all linguistics, or having a narrow view that just encompasses indoeuropean languages. For one, Japanese is basically /V$/ and would match the OV style that is being criticized in the mail. (Of course my interjection does not consider the argument list yet.. that does go against /V$/)
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