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  1. Aug 2022
    1. In the classical Indian languages, there are no words which corresponded to the concept "to become."

      The notion of time. In old indian langauges everything is expressed as being not becoming, where we might say everything flows, they say 'existence is impermanent'. very interesting linguistically relativistic suggestions.

  2. Aug 2019
  3. May 2017
    1. Sanskrit is the only human spoken language which has a context free grammar which means while you cannot write a compiler which can read and understand (parse) english sentences bcoz of the ambiguous nature in English sentences, you can definitely write a compiler for Sanskrit which can understand sanskrit and compile the instructions into binary.

      Using Sanskrit as a language for computing has been proposed, but seems to go nowhere.