--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > > > <snipped paragraph of lingua-babble> > > > > <head jerks up from obfuscationist-babble- > > induced near-coma> > > > > > > That's not obfuscationist babble, that's jargon! > > > > > > The Chomsky Hierarchy > > > > > > Regular languages <-> Finite automata > > > Context-free languages <-> Pushdown automata > > > Context-sensitive languages <-> Linear bounded > > automata > > > Recursively enumerable languages <-> Turing > machines > > > > <scratches head> > > And if I understood your response, would I > understand the jargon? ;) > > Possibly. It made *some* sense to me, anyway. > > However, I'm not sure on the "pushdown automata" and > the "linear bounded > automata" myself. Anyone care to explain? :)
And since he's a professor of linguistics, what are we humans classified as? Or is his hierarchy for computers only? Infinitely Bounding Upward Automaton Maru ;) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
