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Sorry, I'm from a philosophy background so I think of anything published in the last ~100 years as "fairly recent" ;) All I meant was that that many ideas and
by catpolice 8y ago
Sorry, I'm from a philosophy background so I think of anything published in the last ~100 years as "fairly recent" ;)
All I meant was that that many ideas and methods developed originally for linguistics were taken up and expanded upon in programming language research, so that they had a great deal of overlap until about half way through the timeline in the link.
- jcranmer 8y agoProgramming languages didn't exist in any meaningful sense until the 1950s, and the theoretical framework didn't really exist until the 1960s. There's very little cross-pollination between compiler and natural language theory, both before and after the time. Strip out the notion of the CFG (a one-way development), and there's not really any overlap.