When Technology Became Language.
Language is one of the central metaphors around which the discipline of computer science has been built. The language metaphor entered modern computing as part of a cybernetic discourse, but during the second half of the 1950s acquired a more abstract meaning, closely related to the formal languages...
| Publicado en: | Technology & Culture Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 40 - 76 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Jan2014
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