Re: natural language vs human language

• From: Addison Phillips <addison@yahoo-inc.com>
• Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:15:24 -0800
• To: Mark Davis <mark.davis@icu-project.org>
• CC: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>, www-international@w3.org
• Message-ID: <45D0BCCC.20905@yahoo-inc.com>

Mark Davis wrote:
 > I think "natural language" is being used to contrast with "programming
 > language".

Or from a W3C perspective: "markup language". Note that CharMod [1] 
makes this distinction in Section 4.3, although it fails to define 
either language or natural language.

Addison

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CharMod

-- 
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc.

Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.

Received on Monday, 12 February 2007 19:17:03 UTC