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Linguists have long known that when cultures collide, languages rub off on one another. We borrow words, swap sounds, and even reshape grammar. But charting those exchanges across centuries and ...

A truly general purpose programming language, GPL, is described which contains facilities for constructing (within the language) new data types as well as facilities for operations performed upon them ...

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Once I started thinking about the apocalypse, it was hard to stop. An unsettling encounter with the doomsday clock that hangs over New York City’s Union Square got me frantically searching WikiHow for ...

Abstract: In 1961 and in 1969, two towers of Babel of programming languages were published. The first one appeared on the cover of Communications of the ACM. The second one appeared on Jean E.