John McCarthy - Elephant 2000: A Programming Language for the year 2015 Based on Speech Acts

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Mon Nov 17 01:00:00 EST 2008

Much of the meaning behind what people say comes from the context, not just the words. Elephant 2000 is a computer programming language project designed to incorporate the meaning of language, not just its structure. In this talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, John McCarthy, creator of Elephant, describes the language and how it will move work from computer programmers to compilers.