Category:Enguage

Enguage
This programming language may be used to instruct a computer to perform a task.

See Also:	Enguage on the HOPL

Listed below are all of the tasks on Rosetta Code which have been solved using Enguage.

The Language Engine: Enguage. "Enguage" is a portmanteau of the words Language and Engine - hence its unconventional spelling. It is being actively developed and has been since 2011. It won the British Computer Society's Machine Intelligence Competition in 2016.

Enguage source code repo If you have make and git installed, Enguage can be created, thus:

    $ git clone https://github.com/martinwheatman/enguage.git
    $ cd enguage
    $ make jar
    $ export PATH=$PATH:./sbin
    $ java -jar lib/enguage.jar -T hello

Enguage is a speech understanding algorithm, supporting the idea that speech is Turing complete, so requests a place on Rosetta Code. While the examples here are given in English, it can be applied to any natural language. It is therefore the interpreter, and not the language, to which Enguage refers. It can be used to process data, but it is not efficient in doing this. It is unsuitable for interpreting writing, as this is not a discourse.

All Enguage does is to swap the user's utterance with one of the interpretation's replies. It does this directly, see Hello World, or by issuing (thinking?) further utterances and using the replied answer and the status of that thought: 'if so, ...' being operated if the outcome is positive, and 'if not, ...' if it negative. This supplies the idea of conditional processing and recalling (recursion) is used to create loops, see the FizzBuzz example. Thus, interaction with Enguage is always given as a Turing complete discourse: utterance to reply.

As well as the 'reply "..."' imperative, Enguage also has several other such 'hooks' to allow other operations available to the software to be called, such as perform "..." to access the Java classes, and run "..." to run an external command. There is also tcpip "..." which makes a call across the internet, although this could be done my running curl? That Enguage passes off processing to traditional software is regarded as little different to a machine code operating an ALU to provide arithmetic operations.

Hope this is of interest! Happy talking :^)