• Lvxferre [he/him]
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    10 hours ago

    I’m curious if there’s some overlap between conlangs and programming languages, on the region level if not the network level.

    I predict that, if there is such overlap, natural languages will also overlap the same way. Because in practice there’s no individual difference between a highly developed conlang and a natlang.

    • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Sure.

      I suspect the motivation behind this study was to try to narrow down the deciding factor in the earlier study showing a difference between natural and programming languages—the next logical step would be looking at a more “artificial” conlang like Lojban (and/or a more “natural” programming language like ACE).

      The end result will probably be some broader category of “language-network-interpretable” languages including natural and (some but maybe not all) conlangs.