Hello All,
To respond to the previous discussion related
to programming languages and natural languages,
I decided to start a new discussion. My purpose
here is to explain a kind of language theory that I
developed quite many years ago.
A classic book about the C programming language
begins wit
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the illuminating response,
On 22 February 2011 03:39, Andrew Walenstein wrote:
> Even if you don't like these two arguments, surely most would admit that
> *one* of the primary purposes of good programming languages is human-human
> communication. In fact, this was an ess
I think I would propose an alternative structuring.
Computers, Language, Syntax, Semantics, ... - are all categories being placed
over a deeply complicated social mess. Any attempt at forming dichotomies will
be in some sense wrong, and in some sense right. This is typical of any
environment th
On 24/02/2011, at 5:18 AM, alex wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Thanks for the illuminating response,
>
> On 22 February 2011 03:39, Andrew Walenstein wrote:
>> Even if you don't like these two arguments, surely most would admit that
>> *one* of the primary purposes of good programming languages is hu
On 24/02/2011, at 3:11 AM, Kari Laitinen wrote:
> A classic book about the C programming language
> begins with a program that contains the statement
>
> printf("hello, world");
>
> It has been said, however, that the printf function
> that is used in the above statement does not
> belong to t
