http://stuartsierra.com/2006/04/13/programming-by-linguists-1 From programming to everything else Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:18:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://stuartsierra.com/2006/04/13/programming-by-linguists-1#comment-4251 Digital Digressions by Stuart Sierra » Blog Archive » Intentional Programming Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:12:57 +0000 http://stuartsierra.com/?p=11#comment-4251 [...] In one of my first posts, I asked “Why do we speak of programming languages instead of programming notation?” My thought was, and still is, that code in any existing programming language is just one possible representation of an abstract computational process. Higher-level languages like Lisp are good because they bring the written representation closer to the abstraction. But are programming languages necessary at all? [...] [...] In one of my first posts, I asked “Why do we speak of programming languages instead of programming notation?” My thought was, and still is, that code in any existing programming language is just one possible representation of an abstract computational process. Higher-level languages like Lisp are good because they bring the written representation closer to the abstraction. But are programming languages necessary at all? [...]

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