At 03:11 AM 7/7/98 -0400, mgraffam@mhv.net 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, bill.stewart@pobox.com PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639