Classification question: dialect or new language?
There is such a question, what is considered a separate programming language, and what is a dialect?
Is it possible, by some formal criteria, to distinguish one from the other?
For example, Object Pascal (Delphi) seems to be a Pascal dialect, but the differences from Pascal are similar to the differences between C ++ and C, and these are separate languages ...
It can be possible to draw parallels with linguistics, with the classification of natural languages ...
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Why do I need this classification? For the encyclopedia .
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Is it possible, by some formal criteria, to distinguish one from the other?
For example, Object Pascal (Delphi) seems to be a Pascal dialect, but the differences from Pascal are similar to the differences between C ++ and C, and these are separate languages ...
It can be possible to draw parallels with linguistics, with the classification of natural languages ...
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Why do I need this classification? For the encyclopedia .
Who thinks about this?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/22768/
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