Abstract The present study begins by sketching "Chaos/Complexity Theory" (C/CT) and its applica-tion to the nature of language and language acquisition. Then, the theory of "Universal Grammar" (UG) is explicated with an eye to C/CT. Firstly, it is revealed that CCT may or may not be allied with a theory of language acquisition that takes UG as the initial state of language acquisition for ...

Language-orientated programming promises to elevate programmer productivity through increased abstraction capabilities. Structural programming environments provide apparatus to reduce the difficulties with syntax. The language workbench, a conceptual combination of these two approaches, is a comparatively novel approach to software development and has so far been attempted only in dynamic-dispa...

Most software systems are created not with a single language but instead with a collection of languages each carefully chosen to solve a particular set of problems within those systems. Typically the facilities for these languages to interoperate are constructed in an ah-hoc fashion and are thus tedious to use, error-prone, and do not preserve the safety properties of the languages involved. I ...

For Your Amusement " C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. While accidents of history surely helped, it evidently satisfied a need for a system implementation language efficient enough to displace assembly language, yet sufficiently abstract and fluent to describe algorithms and interactions in a wide variety of environments. "-Dennis Ritchie 2 Goals of this Lecture Help you learn about...