LanguageSomething that I've realized as I've done more thinking about inventing a programming language as well as hacking away at the Turing test, is that language is much broader than I first realized. When you abstract the idea of language, it is about encoding/storing/transmitting information. The spoken/written languages like English, French, and Spanish are only one form of language. Programming languages are another class of language, but even beyond that there are so infinately many ways and contexts in which infromation needs to be encoded/stored/transmitted. I guess what I've realized is that not only am I interested in inventing a programming language, I'm interested more broadly in language, and its many and varied forms. |