<div dir="ltr">t has two sources.<br><br>first, the use of "formal
language" in logic and philosophy of language in the work of Gottlob
Frege in the late 19c/early 20c. Frege was clear that the "formal languages" he developed were not
like human languages, but they have nevertheless sometimes been
construed this way (although not usually by philosophers and logicians).<br><br>second, from work in the late 1940s and
early 1950s by Grace Hopper, others at the Navy, and some in academia
(particularly Harvard and MIT) to make what were then called "computer
codes" and basically required high-level knowledge of mathematics,
easier to use, and also compilers to automatically turn these new forms
(including well-known PLs like COBOL and FORTRAN) into machine code.
They called these "programming languages" in part to distinguish them
from "computer codes" and because they used elements of natural language
in their construction. almost immediately, people started construing
these constructions as some artificial meta-category called "language,"
despite this being an incredibly contentious (and basically entirely
inaccurate) way of construing things. Chomsky's 1950s papers on
context-free grammars did not help things. <br><br>Have
some work-in-progress on this topic as it's a particular pet peeve of
mine, but at this point pretty far back on the backburner (if anyone
wants to contribute please drop me a line, as I'm very interested in
making it a group project).<br><br>David</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-11-05 4:13 GMT-05:00 Marie Gevers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marie.gevers@unamur.be" target="_blank">marie.gevers@unamur.be</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I wonder by whom and when the word 'language' was used for the first
time in the framework of computer sciences.<br>
Can anybody enlighten me?<br>
Thanks in advance.<br>
<br>
Marie<br>
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