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Peer reviewedNaur, Peter – Communications of the ACM, 1975
Analogies are drawn between the social aspects of programming and similar aspects of mathematics and natural languages. By analogy with the history of auxiliary languages it is suggested that Fortran and Cobol will remain dominant. (Available from the Association of Computing Machinery, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036.) (Author/TL)
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science
