Chapter 246, Advantages and Disadvantages of the Chinese Language
Wang Zhengyang accompanied Qin Yi to the research institute and talked about the Chinese operating system and Chinese programming, his eyebrows wrinkled into Sichuan characters.
"Although the Chinese operating system and Chinese programming are an old topic, there are many predecessors who have been studying this thing before, but we have not made any progress for a long time, you should not be too anxious, carefully sort out the ideas, there are always more ways than difficulties."
Qin Yi smiled and comforted.
Chinese programming and Chinese operating system are not a new thing, since the computer was transmitted to our country, there have been people in our country who have studied this Chinese operating system and Chinese programming.
The reason is very simple, because Chinese is our mother tongue, and we use Chinese in our daily life and work, while almost everything in the computer field is related to English, and the foundation and framework are based on English.
This is very unfavorable to the development of our country's computer technology and the Internet industry, and if we can use Chinese to program and construct Chinese operations, it will be very helpful to the development of our country's computer and Internet industry.
However, the research on Chinese programming and Chinese operating systems can be described as extremely bumpy and extremely difficult.
From the early days, just to study a Chinese input method, the state has gathered a lot of researchers and scientists to study it carefully.
Because Chinese and English are two completely different languages, the differences between them are too great.
The Chinese language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan word order, which is derived from the earliest hieroglyphs; English, on the other hand, belongs to the Indo-European order, consisting of 26 letters derived from the Latin alphabet.
Because of the huge difference between the two languages, when computers and the Internet were just spreading to our country, we were very slow to input Chinese characters into the computer, and we had to rely on pinyin letters to input Chinese characters.
Later, after the hard work of scientists and researchers, the invention of the Wubi input method, the speed of Chinese character input soared instantly, and later, with the study of more and more people in the input method, a variety of intelligent input methods have appeared, the problem of Chinese input has been well solved.
However, there has been no substantial breakthrough in the research of Chinese programming and Chinese operating system, and the most mainstream and widely used programming software in the world is all English software.
As for the operating system, it is the world of English, whether it is Microsoft's Windows system or Apple's system, it is also an operating system based on English.
A lot of investment has been made, and there are many people who have studied this aspect, but there has never been a substantive breakthrough, so that some people even blame the Chinese language.
It is believed that Chinese is an inferior language and cannot adapt to the development of the trend of the times, and the country should completely eliminate Chinese and learn from India to change the official language to English, so as to better integrate with the world and catch up with the development of the trend of the times.
Of course, about this kind of deliberately demeaning themselves, exalting others of the absurd statement in the end are self-defeating, with the advent of smart phones, everyone suddenly found that in the mobile phone to enter information, Chinese with nine letter keys is enough, the speed is very fast, but the English input is very slow, and it is very prone to errors.
So much so that when English is typed, there is a gradual tendency to learn from Chinese and use a more concise way to express meaning.
"I'm not in a hurry, but I haven't made any progress, and I'm very irritable."
Hearing Qin Yi's comforting words, Wang Zhengyang smiled slightly bitterly.
Being able to enter the Galaxy Science and Technology Research Institute, his salary is very good, and there are no problems at all in a rich and well-off life, and there are no troubles in life.
However, in this work, studying Chinese programming and Chinese operating systems, there has been no progress for a long time, and the whole person has become very irritable, and even wanted to quit for a while.
"Tell me, what are the problems with Chinese programming and Chinese operating systems?"
Qin Yi smiled, in fact, Qin Yi also knows a little about the research of Chinese programming and Chinese operating systems, and he has also studied and studied it seriously.
In the science and technology tower, Qin Yi also carefully studied the languages and scripts of many civilizations in the universe, found many languages similar to Chinese, and carefully studied their computer operating systems and programming systems.
As a work of advanced civilization, the science and technology tower also has a detailed explanation for the system and programming between language and words, and there is a guide on how to start from various words and how to clarify ideas.
This time, Qin Yi also plans to teach these ideas and methods to everyone, otherwise, when the virtual machine is studied, the Chinese operating system and Chinese programming system may not have been studied.
"Where to start~"
Wang Zhengyang took Qin Yi to the research institute and came to a conference room, which was full of people from the institute who studied Chinese programming and Chinese operating systems.
Wang Zhengyang carefully sorted out his language, thought about it and said: "Let's start with the language, Chinese has many advantages over English. ”
"Chinese characters are concise, concise and concise, with low redundancy, and express the richest meaning with the least symbols, we elaborate from the perspective of informatics, Chinese characters and Western letters as the most basic units of language and writing, used to form words, sentences, convey certain information, is the carrier of information, how to measure the information loaded by each Chinese character and letter?"
"Modern informatics measures the average amount of information with entropy, which indicates the uncertainty of the occurrence of a given symbol. There are about 30 pinyin alphabets used in the Western alphabet, and the Chinese language uses square characters as the writing unit, the number is thousands, and it is obvious that the degree of uncertainty that appears randomly is much greater than that of the Western alphabet, and from this point of view, the amount of information loaded by each Chinese character is much greater than the amount of information loaded by a letter. ”
"After statistical calculations, we have come up with a zero-order entropy of 3.98 bits for the French alphabet, 4.00 bits for the Italian alphabet, 4.01 bits for the Spanish alphabet, 4.03 bits for the English alphabet, 4.10 bits for German, 4.12 bits for Romanian, and 4.35 bits for Russian."
"The zero-order entropy of English words is 10.0 bits, and the zero-order entropy of Chinese words is 11.46 bits, which indicates that Chinese words also have richer meanings than English."
Mr. Wang said as someone next to him began to turn on the projector and show their research on the differences between Chinese and English.
"Because our Chinese is too concise and concise, the meaning of one word and one word is too rich, and the meaning of the same word is completely different in different occasions and tones."
"Therefore, the meaning of a sentence composed of Chinese characters is richer, and it is often a very simple sentence, but it has multiple meanings."
"How much can you wear?"
"This is a very simple sentence, it has two meanings, one is to wear as many clothes as possible, and the other is to wear as few clothes as possible, the two meanings are completely different, but they are the same sentence."
"It's nice to have a language downsized, but in the computer world, because computers are fundamentally accurate calculations."
"If the meaning is not clear, it simply has no way to calculate."
"On the contrary, English is more verbose, but verbosity is verbosity, and the language with high verbosity has good structure, accurate language information expression, strong error correction ability, and is conducive to computer calculation, programming, and so on."
Qin Yi listened carefully, Wang Zhengyang understood these things as soon as he heard them, and Qin Yi, who had also studied computers in depth, naturally understood.
"As far as I know, the process of program coding is as refined as possible, and it stands to reason that the advantages of our Chinese should be more obvious."
Hearing this, Qin Yi thought about it and raised his doubts.
"You're right, from the perspective of computer development, programming has always required refinement, especially when computers were just starting to develop, because of the limited storage capacity, the coding was as refined as possible."
"It's like in ancient times, before the invention of paper, when writing could only be done on sheepskin and bamboo, because the writing materials were constantly made, so the writing was as concise as possible, so we have our current classical Chinese."
"But refining is refining, in the final analysis, the computer is still a kind of operation, a way of calculation, refining must also express the accurate meaning, our Chinese meaning is too rich, refining is absolutely enough, but the meaning expressed is too rich, it brings great trouble to the calculation."
Hearing Qin Yi's words, Wang Zhengyang nodded, he is an expert in computer text information processing, and he understands these things very well.
"In that case, it is impossible to implement Chinese programming and Chinese systems?"
Hearing this, Qin Yi couldn't help frowning, listening to Wang Zhengyang's words, he always felt that it made people more depressed and angry, and he was thinking about whether to change someone to preside over this work.
This is the first time that Qin Yi has changed people, and Qin Yi has never changed the person in charge of any research unit, but this time, Qin Yi has really moved this era.
"No~ This can be achieved in English, and we can also achieve it in Chinese."
"Because our Chinese expressions are more abundant, I think in the future of computer development, the advantages of our Chinese will become more and more obvious."
"In addition, a computer is a computer, a language is a language, this English can be, we can also do Chinese, other Japanese, Arabic and so on, in essence, any language can be."
"It's just that we may have been limited by English and our existing programming thinking, and we have not been able to break the rules and regulations left by English programming and English operating systems, so we have not made any progress."
PS: If you have any computer studies, you have come out to talk about the possibility of Chinese programming~