This document describes solutions in Rascal to three language workbench challenges, based on the questionnaire language QL: code in prose, computed properties, and language extension.

Lessness is a prose piece by Samuel Beckett in which he used random permutation to order sentences. Like interactive artworks, the piece is experienced as a process that depends upon the participant’s attempts to comprehend and create meaning. Although Lessness is linear prose, its orderly disorder sets up a non-linear reading process in which contradictory perspectives are viewed simultaneousl...

The purpose of this synthesis is to deconstruct the medium of Marshall McLuhan’s prose as an anti-environment for the medium of traditional academic writing. By placing McLuhan’s own theory in dialogue with the founding principles of linguistic anthropology, I will argue that McLuhan’s authorial tactics—a subject of his long-term repudiation by the academic community on the whole—adhered to the...

ferdowsi, has beautifully described the important characters of shahnameh. with the help of psychological analysis, one can reach the hidden layers of their personality. this shows ferdowsi’s intelligence and his awareness in characterization. one of the negative and unaccepted characters of shahnameh is called shaghaad, who is rostam’s stepbrother. in his exact description of this character, f...

nasir khosraw ghobadiani balkhi, the iranian poet and philosopher in 5th century (hegira) has poetry and prose works and he has employed to teach religious. his poetry is enjoying of divine inspiration and is overfilled of theology and preaching and asceticism. his prose works has written about philosophy issues and religious points and interpretations of religious commandments and worships. he...

Observers often remember a scene as containing information that was not presented but that would have likely been located just beyond the observed boundaries of the scene. This effect is called boundary extension (BE; e.g., Intraub & Richardson, 1989). Previous studies have observed BE in memory for visual and haptic stimuli, and the present experiments examined whether BE occurred in memory fo...

We investigate the maximal length of repeat as a function of the text length in ten English texts. The maximal length of repeat in the experimental data is greater than a power of the logarithm of the text length where the exponent is close to 2. This result indicates that English prose cannot be modeled by a finite-energy stochastic process, differently than we have previously assumed.

Literary works reference a variety of globally shared themes including well-known people, events, and time periods. It is particularly interesting to locate patterns that are either invariant across time or exhibit a characteristic change across time, as they could imply something important about society that those works record. This paper suggests the use of Google n-gram viewer as a fast prot...

1. introduction one of the features of oral poetry in aryan-indo-european tribes is the usage of epithets in their epic and religious works. after conducting research in oral poetry in yugoslavia and comparing results with literary features of iliad and odyssey, researchers concluded that these epithets along with the name of characters are based on formulas. homer had learned these formulas fr...