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Re: FWIW: script vs. configurtion file



2014/07/23 16:41 "Tony Baldwin" <tonyb@myownsite.me>:
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 03:46:56PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> > Programming is a field of mathematics. Mathematically speaking, limiting a
> > language to a declarative syntax does not mean that the language ceases to
> > be a language.
>
> I would argue that programming is linguistics (being a linguist, myself,
> and a professional translator), but I would also argue that math is
> language (a symbolic means of representing our perception of reality).
>
> tony

Yeah.

ttps://www.google.co.jp/search?q=mathematical languages

More to the point,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_grammar


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