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Volume 4, Issue 2
1 February 1975
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Review Article| February 01 1975

TENSE IN FORMAL LANGUAGE SYNTAX AND CO‐OPERATING SEQUENTIAL PROCESSES Available to Purchase

D. RINE
D. RINE
Computer Science (Programming Languages), West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va. 26506, U.S.A.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7883
Print ISSN: 0368-492X
© MCB UP Limited
1975
Kybernetes (1975) 4 (2): 49–55.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005382

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:

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