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"And Rosta" <a.rosta@hidden.email> wrote: > > The Nensendi document's dialogue with itself talks about > "memory leakage". What is that? > Many programs that process large quantities of data need to allocate a lot of temporary memory. When you fail to de-allocate memory after it's no longer needed, it's called a "memory leak". If the program runs long enough, you'll eventually run out of memory and crash the program. By the way, the "dialogue with itself" is actually a bunch of reminders to myself about various software implementation details. They were not intended for my web site. (I forgot that they were at the end of the summary file.) BestATN@hidden.email wrote: > > What are the serious flaws in Katanda? > The handling of prefixes and suffixes was flawed. The semantics of genitives and noun-noun compounds was flawed. There are also a few other flaws that I can't remember offhand. I also didn't like the distinction between semi-morphs and classifiers, and the limitations that it placed on root formation. The semi-morphs were limited in number, and so each one had too many unrelated meanings. The new approach allows semi-roots to be used as classifiers, modifiers of classifiers, or stand-alone roots. Resulting words are slightly longer (because a part-of-speech suffix is almost always required), but I don't care about that. There are also other changes that will make the software implementation simpler. Regards, Rick Morneau http://www.eskimo.com/~ram