Language Games:
Now You’re Playing
with Power
My latest preoccupation…
Using search-and-replace programs to reformat earlier Xanga entries. This involves the use of “regular expressions,” which lead to the following thoughts….
It seems that pure mathematics (i.e., the theory of finite automata) is not without relevance even in very practical data formatting problems. One of the first math books I ever bought — perhaps the very first — was Automata Studies (Princeton’s Annals of Mathematics Studies, No. 34, 1956). This book, which I still have, begins with an essay by Stephen Cole Kleene.
Kleene’s legacy includes regular expressions and Kleene’s theorem. For further details, see
Notes on
Formal Language Theory
and Parsing
James Power
Department of Computer Science
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, MAYNOOTH
Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
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Here’s more on
language games and robot wisdom
from an authority on James Joyce,
Margita
Re: robot wisdom, wrestling/boxing, etc. – interesting terminology…