The idea of Sanskrit as programming language seems to stem from NASA
researcher Rick Briggs' 1985 paper, "Knowledge Representation in Sanskrit
and Artificial Intelligence," AI Magazine Vol 6, #1, 1985.
representation, i.e. for machine representation of knowledge expressed in a
structured form, based on natural language. Sanskrit is apparently
well-suited to this application, partly because of its systematized grammar,
and its relative lack of ambiguity. Briggs pointed out correspondences
between KR structures used in AI, and equivalent structures in Sanskrit. At
least a couple of conferences arose as a result of this paper.
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