The language is extremely concise. It has perhaps the highest information to word count ratio. There are no redundancies. A few truths Sanskrit is a brilliant language. Storage issues Despite the arguably best verbal efficiency, there are a few issues with the language in actual knowledge representation. Vowels or consonant glyphs with the inherent vowel takes up 2 bytes of space each.
The combination of a consonant glyph and a different vowel takes 4 bytes. A consonant with a suppressed vowel is 4 bytes. A double consonant glyph is 6 bytes. A double consonant glyph combined with a vowel is 8 bytes.
The actual point The paper does not at all contain any claim, mention or indication that Sanskrit can be used as a programming language. Not entirely right Briggs did get a few things wrong in his piece. So what happened? The eerily familiar intro The extraordinary thing about Sanskrit is that it offers direct accessibility to anyone to that elevated plane where the two — mathematics and music, brain and heart, analytical and intuitive, scientific and spiritual — become one.
The falsification Adaptation: It might seem a bit off topic, but take a moment to appreciate what just happened here.
Those of you with even the most rudimentary capacity for critical thinking have adapted themselves to be able to intuitively call bullshit on an article from its very first sentence.
This is clearly woo. Music, while being a subjective experience, is already entirely mathematical. One surely cannot be expected to believe Sanskrit would improve upon that. The brain and the heart always work together. Spirituality is subjective. The spirituality of one is different from the the spirituality of everyone else, regardless of the degree of similarity of their thoughts.
Again, Sanskrit cannot do anything to change that fact. The falsification There is absolutely no evidence to back the claim that Rick Briggs had consulted Sanskrit experts. Widening the search parameters, none seem interested in the idea of Sanskrit for AI at all. Their only job was to explain their fantastic language. Every single one of them declines the offer because they did not want the language to be put to foreign use. You idiot! You got to work at NASA for an otherwise utterly useless skill and you declined.
Americans know Sanskrit After the refusal of the Indian Sanskrit scholars to help them acquire command over the language, US has urged its young generation to learn Sanskrit. Maybe they need Sanskrit after all. Calling it a scientific language, whatever that means, is akin to calling the SI system of measurement scientific. Idiotic narrative: Sanskrit experts refuse to help the US.
The US decides to teach Sanskrit to its children. They need credibility. However, they are allowed to learn Sanskrit for credit by whatever means they can. No such claim is made. Least word count?
Yes, but Sanskrit words are often cascades of shorter words. The German language can do that too. Extremely long words can be created in Sanskrit just by lining them up one after another and omitting the spaces in between. A long word is going to take up more storage space or transmission time than a shorter word.
Character count is the only thing that matters. However, since those new words are always going to be cascades of smaller words, I fail to see how any computer would benefit from using Sanskrit. Actually , computers do not even need to communicate with each other in natural languages. They only need do so when interacting with people. They talk among themselves pretty well, transmitting predefined codes to one another.
In fact, I can literally instruct a computer to note that a variable equals an entire Sanskrit sentence and make them transmit that back and forth instead of the Sanskrit directly. No AI scientist is stupid enough to suggest Sanskrit would reduce an already minimal transmission load.
The falsification Search engines exist. Oh, right, Indians! Spoke to soon! A general search. Yields thousands upon thousands of blog posts and Hindu propagandist website articles claiming that Mission Sanskrit is a real thing.
Nothing at all from NASA. A site specific search on Google. The results are either about their undertaken missions in general or missions with Sanskrit names. There was no Mission Sanskrit. I learnt a lot though. Did you know there is a crater on the moon named after Kalidasa, a Sanskrit writer? There were 25 results to that search. I checked every single one of them and none point to a Mission Sanskrit.
They have a handy index of all their missions. I made an enquiry via email to NASA about the whole thing. A more specific research could be done using their library site. So, I searched on their headquarters library and still nothing. I concluded that Mission Sanskrit is a hoax.
Never has, never will. Barking mad The scientists believe that Sanskrit is also helpful in speech therapy besides helping in mathematics and science. The speech therapy part has some merit to it. There are papers in medical journals, of course by Indians, that suggest Sanskrit is useful for speech therapy.
Sanskrit is limited to 8 vowels, 2 diphthongs and 33 consonant sounds. If you can do those well, you can do Sanskrit. You cannot master sounds outside its purview with Sanskrit speech therapy as they do not map on to every sound made in other languages. Mathematics and science?! Absolutely false, yet presented as if it were an accepted fact. They also claim that the school teaches Sanskrit to simplify mathematics and science while the school itself only ever acknowledges the speech therapy thing.
Fabrications: The improvements in concentration, the tone of speech, imagination and memory retention are not supported by scientific studies. People will still believe it. Tall claim A report in Forbes magazine in said that Sanskrit is the most precise language and hence suitable language for computer software.
The falsification There exists no such report. Forbes does not seem like a publication that sustain archives of its decades old releases. There is no way to verify it using the official source. No one has ever published a scan of the page that says anything like that. We have nothing but assertions. The simplest explanation: Forbes never claimed anything about Sanskrit as a language for computer software.
Forbes is a business magazine. Even if they did publish a report like that, what makes it valid? Was it a science writer who wrote the piece? Why does it even make it to the discussion? A search for the article only reveals how powerful the internet is.
Generations of bullshit A report by NASA scientists says the creation of 6th and 7th generation super computers is based on Sanskrit language. A short summary of this paper. Download PDF. Aksharam, Bangalore. Sanskrit and Computing: Myth and Truth. Compiled a Sanskrit dictionary for computer terminology Member of International Sanskrit computational linguistics forum. Idea of Computing Who is the father of Computer? The traces of early formal logic are found in Buddhist logic.
Is Sanskrit really a Computer Language? Formal Language vs Natural Language Natural Languages are the languages that are spoken or written for human communication. The reason for this speciality of Sanskrit also lies in the concept of vibhakti. Its very simple. Hence, it would be confusing in English. It is not possible in English to form such compound words, in turn, strongly limiting the vocabulary in English. March 7, at am. July 14, at am. I think the usability of sanskrit in computer should not remain as a hope or a blender thought of poor brain , it can be fulfilled by taking it as a challenge and may be an ever valuable gift that one in 21 sentury can given to sanskrit , as one of the oldest language in the world which is not a speaking language even in a single village in india but was spoken for a long period of more than years.
Good wishes. January 19, at pm. I have just read Rick Briggs article and have it before me. I found it delightful for the Historical Background it provided. Now for the practical implications. February 17, at am. Nice to hear this. Can I have some sanskrit groups to which I can join?? March 2, at pm. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email.
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Join 86 other followers. There are some vital issues making obstruction in getting final stage. These issues are — 1. Transliteration, 2. Voice recognition. April 18, at pm ratnuu. Will try to touch base with him Best, R. June 6, at pm Anal Kumar. This article demonstrates that a natural language can serve as an artificial language also and , that much work in AI has been reinventing a wheel millennia old.
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