Case-based language. Is that one in which everything is conjugated/declined?
A coworker once told me that the reason it's so easy for Hindi-speakers to pick up certain computer languages is because Hindi is structured very similarily to the big languages, like ASP and PHP. Something about first you call (verb) your function (object) and then give the particulars (subject, adjectives, adverbs). I'm a little fuzzy on it now, since it's been years, but it was the first time I'd every consciously thought about the whole subject-object-verb (and other orders). With the exception of Gaelic, every language I'd studied up to that point were basically subject-verb-object languages, in the Romance/Teutonic line.
Gaelic being verb-subject-object, I think. Verb first, at least. It's been years!
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Date: 4 Feb 2011 05:34 am (UTC)A coworker once told me that the reason it's so easy for Hindi-speakers to pick up certain computer languages is because Hindi is structured very similarily to the big languages, like ASP and PHP. Something about first you call (verb) your function (object) and then give the particulars (subject, adjectives, adverbs). I'm a little fuzzy on it now, since it's been years, but it was the first time I'd every consciously thought about the whole subject-object-verb (and other orders). With the exception of Gaelic, every language I'd studied up to that point were basically subject-verb-object languages, in the Romance/Teutonic line.
Gaelic being verb-subject-object, I think. Verb first, at least. It's been years!