By any measure, there is an enormous number of programming languages. Some lists contain hundreds, while the Historical ...

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Brains sell magazines, mathematical linguistics sells caffeine. That basically summarizes coverage of a recent study on songbirds' "artificial grammar system". More on that later. First, a summary of ...