From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 21:14:19 -0700 (PDT)
To: Hua@teralogic-inc.com>
Subject: RE: Junger et al.
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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
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