What is "Open Language"?

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2015-10-26 19:27, Richmond wrote:
>> I would love LiveCode NOT to understand the uncertainty of me. 
>> Computers
>> should not be behave being as ambiguous as we humans are.

Quite - nor should programming languages be ambiguous. Indeed, for them 
to be useful at all they need to be entirely unambiguous.

Open Language is the name of a parsing technology that we have developed 
which allows a reasonable degree of flexibility in defining 'natural 
language like' grammars (heavily based on abstracting the patterns 
present in existing xTalks) in a way which means that there requires no 
central co-ordination of the grammar.

Any ambiguities which occur due to using two sets of definitions from 
two disparate parties who never talk to each other is easily resolved by 
either preferring one set of definitions over the other, or marking one 
token of a line which uses an ambiguous phrase with a disambiguating 
mark.

There is nothing 'artificially intelligent' about Open Language - just 
perhaps a bit of 'artificial competence' and 'artificial sense'.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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