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 ...

At a job interview on Friday, I had to write code, and one of the things that came up when we were talking about implementation of a concept was recursion. The director of the group said to me "Don't ...

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Embedded developers often bemoan the fact that no programming language is ideal for their particular needs. In a way, this situation is unsurprising, because, although a great many developers are ...

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

The C programming language has been alive and kicking since 1972, and it still reigns as one of the essential building blocks of our software-studded world. But what about the dozens of newer ...

How do I learn the C programming language on my Apple Mac? The C programming language has been around since the 1970s, but it has never gone out of style, and learning C is one of the best computer ...