From: Igor Pirnovar <lists@...>
Date: 2012-10-29T04:25:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Name/symbol/object type clash? What is happening here?

Jan E. wrote in post #1081692:

> Igor, I tell you, every time you use the word "grammar", god kills a
> kitten. You have no clue what this word means, and apparently you don't
> want to know.

Jan, thank you for your insightful comment. I understand that you may
have trouble understanding more anthropomorphic relationship to language
rules in programing languages, but isn't this just the reflection of how
badly general English speaking community understands what even English
grammar is? The rules of Boolean algebra can be interpreted as the
simplest of grammars. You do not have to be a linguist to understand
that words, variables and objects are operands and that operators may
represent what in grammar represent inflections, conjugations, and other
grammar rules { -ed, -ing, -s, -ly, irregular verbs, auxiliary verbs,
order of words, ...} with which the semantics of statements is
controlled.

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