1. RE: RE: semiotics
- Posted by rforno at tutopia.com
Nov 06, 2002
OK. But then, I think "semiotics" is a discipline, and so it's not really
meaningful to speak about its "versions".
Moreover, semiotics as a discipline is already applied to programming
languages. As a matter of fact, two professors and me are teaching "Theory
of Programming Languages" at a local University. Semiotics comprises syntax,
semantics and pragmatics. In the course, we briefly mention this division,
and then concentrate first on syntax in a 3-month course, and then semantics
in another course. Pragmatics is left to the exercises...;)
Regretfully, there are several books on general programming languages
syntax, but practically none on semantics (one of the two other teachers is
practically "inventing" the course). If you know about some books, please
tell me.
Regards.
----- Original Message -----
From: david <mpenzi at bellsouth.net>
To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: RE: semiotics
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> It was the first post. :)
> >
> > From: rforno at tutopia.com
> > Date: 2002/11/05 Tue PM 08:38:03 EST
> > To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> > Subject: RE: semiotics
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> > I don't understand. Is this an answer to some previous post? If so, I
> > haven't received it. If not, what is it referring to?
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: david <mpenzi at bellsouth.net>
> > To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 12:39 PM
> > Subject: semiotics
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> > > There should be a version of semiotics that applies to programming
> > > languages.
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> > >
> " '...But this is one thought that has impressed me, Govinda. Wisdom
is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate
always sounds foolish.'
> 'Are you jesting?' asked Govinda.
> 'No, I am telling you what I have discovered. Knowledge can be
communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it,
do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it..." - fr.
Siddhartha, by Hermann
> Hesse (1877-1962)
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