TENSE IN FORMAL LANGUAGE SYNTAX AND CO‐OPERATING SEQUENTIAL PROCESSES

Abstract

There are few places in the literature on formal language syntax where tense is efficiently treated as part of the syntactical structure. In both natural languages and programming languages, cybernetically speaking, one encounters the fundamental concept of “verb phrase”. For information processing the COBOL programmer can construct the extended general form of verb commands containing tense as follows:

Citation

RINE, D. (1975), "TENSE IN FORMAL LANGUAGE SYNTAX AND CO‐OPERATING SEQUENTIAL PROCESSES", Kybernetes, Vol. 4 No. 2, pp. 49-55. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005382