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Article #5136Re: Perfect language features: how many languages?
From: Greg Lee
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1988 15:38
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1988 15:38
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From article <5028@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, by djsalomon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Daniel J. Salomon): > ... > But you have to admit that computer languages are more like > natural languages than they are like vaccines. That is all I said. This is tangential, but natural languages are maybe something like vaccines. One current theory of syntax, arc pair grammar, describes languages as sets of contraints (antibodies?) on sentence structure. That is to say, a grammar characterizes the complement of the permissible sentences. (Good health is the absence of disease.) Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!nosc!humu!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.UUCP (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Perfect language features: how many languages? Message-ID: <1566@uhccux.UUCP> Date: 12 Feb 88 15:38:03 GMT References: <5028@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Organization: U. of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu) Lines: 12