Alan,
How does Mandarin Chinese fare for identically spelt homonymic words ? I think that 
can wreck good polymorphism from how I see it, though I don't know how 
polymorphism works in nature or how you originally meant it.

Could you say some of the attributes you like about Mandarin Chinese.

Thanks!
Gary

06/02/02 04:50:11, Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> wrote:


>Sometimes called an "analytic language" -- actually moving more and 
>more towards one of the ultimate analytic languages: Mandarin Chinese 
>-- which we computer folk would think is a pretty darn good way to do 
>the grammar of a human language ...
>
>Cheers,
>
>Alan