Joel Rees writes:
> 2014/07/23 16:41 "Tony Baldwin" <to...@myownsite.me>:
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 03:46:56PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> > > Programming is a field of mathematics. Mathematically speaking, limiting
> > > a
> > > language to a declarative syntax does not mean that the language ceases
> > > to
> > > be a language.
> >
> > I would argue that programming is linguistics (being a linguist, myself,
> > and a professional translator), but I would also argue that math is
> > language (a symbolic means of representing our perception of reality).
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_grammar
Confusion Warning!
The Formal Language Theory _belongs_ to several disciplines
(mathematics, linguistics, computer science) and while the programming
language design is inherently close to linguistics, not all
programming is.
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