Something that I wonder about is the intersection (if any) of programming languages and natural languages.
It could be that as in natural languages the final arbitration on what is used is the masses and all the academic discussion in the world can't change it much. As I write this it occurs to me that an Artist (Shakespeare) and the King James Bible, had a significant effect on consolidating what became modern English.
If computer languages follow natural languages then a continuous evolution of existing languages will occur over time whether we like it or not. I think we can see some evidence for that in the oldest computer languages that we have. It would also follow that some languages disappear over time ...
In natural language development I have read that it takes about 1000 years for a language to become unintelligible if separated from its mother tongue. What is the equivalent in CL? You can't compile/interpret the program? A human can't understand the code?
There might be some room for cross discipline research here.
English faculty and Comp. Sci on the same papers?
(I'd love to be fly on the wall at those meetings) :)
It could be that as in natural languages the final arbitration on what is used is the masses and all the academic discussion in the world can't change it much. As I write this it occurs to me that an Artist (Shakespeare) and the King James Bible, had a significant effect on consolidating what became modern English.
If computer languages follow natural languages then a continuous evolution of existing languages will occur over time whether we like it or not. I think we can see some evidence for that in the oldest computer languages that we have. It would also follow that some languages disappear over time ...
In natural language development I have read that it takes about 1000 years for a language to become unintelligible if separated from its mother tongue. What is the equivalent in CL? You can't compile/interpret the program? A human can't understand the code?
There might be some room for cross discipline research here. English faculty and Comp. Sci on the same papers?
(I'd love to be fly on the wall at those meetings) :)