[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 01/24/2018 03:58 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 3:43:15 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 01/24/2018 02:55 PM, John Reagan wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 2:51:05 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>    Do you speak
>>>> Esperanto?  Theory was with Esperanto no one would need to learn more
>>>> than two languages.  His native and Esperanto, a generic language for
>>>> all.  How did that work out?  There are just some things that don't
>>>
>>> https://translate.google.com/#en/eo/Google%20has%20a%20translator%20for%20Esperanto
>>>
>>
>> Google doesn't have an accurate translator for any language beyond the
>> siplest of statements.  But it is good when I need a laugh.
>>
>> bill
> 
> Google even corrected your typo of "siplest" instead of "simplest"
> 
> Google n'a pas de traducteur précis pour tout langage au-delà de la plus simple des déclarations. Mais c'est bon quand j'ai besoin de rire.
> 
> I'll let the native French speakers tell me how well they did.
> 


While I will admit it is getting better, I still get a kick out
of running things I am writing in other languages (primarily
German) through just to see how far out it can get.  I can't
remember what it was but there was something I was saying to
a friend over the holidays that Google Translate could not do
at all merely passing many of the valid English words thru.
Luckily, I knew what the correct German was.  :-)

Haven't done it in quite some time but I used to get a kick out
of typing in a paragraph of English and then successively
translating it thru multiple different languages eventually
coming back to English so I could laugh at what it morphed into.

bill