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Language and Computers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

Chin-Chuan Cheng
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Language, writing, and the computer, as Wang (1986) states, must rank among the highest of our most important inventions since each has profoundly determined the development of the human species. There have been numerous interactions among these three types of human institutions. Writing, of course, is largely a reflection of language. Since its inception four decades ago, the computer has depended on various forms of language and writing to communicate with its human creators. Some of these forms were specially invented programming languages for a small breed of people.

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Language and the Professions
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 7 , March 1986, pp. 34 - 49
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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