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RE: Junger et al.
At 03:11 AM 7/7/98 -0400, [email protected] wrote:
>On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Ernest Hua wrote:
>> Did anyone demonstrate the "functionalness" of any arbitrary language
>> via a scanner and a compiler?
>Indeed.. what we need is for someone to testify to the court about
>natural and computer language, and maybe some relevent material from
>information theory.
>
>Pseudo-code from any computer programming textbook would be helpful
>in making this point too.
>
>What about English in a voice recognition system? In this case, English
>can actually perform functions too, just as C does.
A particularly relevent language is the Algorithmic Language, Algol,
which was designed for mathematicians to describe algorithms to each other,
though it was also designed in a way to support compilers,
such as ALGOL-60.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, [email protected]
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