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by bayindirh 251 days ago
Programming languages are built upon mathematically defined and deterministic syntax. You can analyze them with formulae, take concrete and deterministic actions on the syntax tree.

There's no need to unleash a fuzzy and inefficient network on something designed to be deterministic and parseable.
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cma 251 days ago
Yes but he was saying other languages weren't in this aspect.

And I said the same as you but that also it could highlight on more abstract things that aren't in the parse tree, I meant things like feature-relatedness etc. These variables are only used for intermediate logging stuff and get greyed out etc.

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eru 250 days ago
It's not so much syntax as semantics here. And programming languages are often described and implemented with rather vaguer ideas than fully formally specified semantics. (Even Haskell doesn't have fully formalised semantics.)
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