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From: Ell <ell@access5.digex.net>
Subject: Re: Linguistic invention (was Re: Software landmines (loops))
Date: 1998/09/18
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In comp.object Robert I. Eachus <eachus@spectre.mitre.org> wrote:

:   There are two types of langauge creation.  The first is fairly
: common, when someone creates a neologism that is instantly
: recognizable as part of the surrounding linguistic system.  They are
: just adjusting the language to things that already exist.  The second
: is much rarer, when some person or group creates truely new language,
: which can be used to express thoughts totally outside existing
: experience.  Outside the area of programming languages, this used to
: be a once in a lifetime experience, such as when Gauss and Newton
: invented calculus.

Most sources I have read state that it was Gottfried Leibniz and Newton
who share credit for developing calculus.  In fact a number of them state
that Newton plaigerized Leibniz.  None have ever mentioned Gauss as a
co-creator of calculus.

Elliott
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