Thursday, 29 November 2007

On process in different languages

A friend of mine pointed to the differences that language makes to the thinking of the nation. When looking for the word for "making an insight" (word is absent from English, despite the obvious need that it has for education and development) that in Finnish there are words to describe it
"eläytyminen" - has the word stem to live or to become alive and
"oivallus" - means excellence forming

I then start to think about varius endings of verbs and that there are so many ways in FinnoUgric languages to make verbs

In Finnish
-llus
-nnus
-muus


In Estonian
-ldus
-mus
-mine
-tumine
-tus
-dus
-davus
-as
-tsioon
-uur
-ndumus
-lus
-tamine

There is an important reason for this in programming and in design and modelling in specific, in fact English is not very useful for thinking in terms of the processes involved for specifying programming. Thinking in Finnish would help : ) This is from the viewpoint of that programmer should begin from process in the system and later define the objects that have these processes.
This would create a more optimal and faster code in terms of computing resources used.

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