Re: Redefining the word "language"

2011-03-04 Thread Thomas Green
And where do people want to put Inform 7, the interactive fiction language that is a subset of English and has some semantic inference built in? http://inform7.com/ Is it a programming language? a restricted natural language? both? neither? Thomas On 4 Mar 2011, at 17:17, Kari Laitinen

Re: Redefining the word "language"

2011-03-04 Thread Kari Laitinen
>> The definition of 'language' depends on who you are talking to. I think that based on this discussion and earlier discussions, it is not always clear what the term "programming language" means. From the compilation point of view the term is clear, i.e., the lexical rules and the syntax of the