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Appedix 18. Relation Between Programming Languages and Linguistics
Pages 118-120

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... The real link was between programming and mathematical logic, as witness the development of ADES languages based on recursive functions and the development of several Polish prefix-oriented languages. Syntax analysis during this period was a collection of ad hoc techniques.
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... Programming has also led to the definition of linguistic models possessing a theory of their owns and specifically tailored for use as programming languages.4 The existence of a body of technique in programming has made it possible to develop special programming languages for solving certain linguistic problems, e.g., SNOBOL5 and COMITY. Similarly, programming, being concerned with a growing set of demands, provides a pressure on linguistic theory directing it toward problems particularly relevant to computation, e.g., problems of efficiency of representation and speed of computation.
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... These languages will become sufficiently complex so that a theory of their semantics or evaluation will be a sufficiently interesting model for the equivalent problems arising in natural language translation. Similarly, there will be a reverse flow from the development of semantic theories within natural linguistics into mathematical linguistic models, which, in turn, will influence programming.
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