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- adjective Linked in a
series ororder of things depending on each other, as if linked together;successive .
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Unlike processing in a conventional computer, the process is distributed rather than serial, there is no explicit representation of the rules, and the representations are not concatenative.
The Computational Theory of Mind Horst, Steven 2005
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In response, Aydede [1997], while recognizing the tendency of classicists to make assumptions that the LOT is concatenative, argues that the LOT need not be held to this stronger criterion.
The Computational Theory of Mind Horst, Steven 2005
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The relationship was certainly concatenative, if not equivalent.
Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963
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The hinge of the mirth was made to turn upon the irresistible drollery of one man's running away with another man's wife, and the outrageous fun of the consequent suicide of the injured husband; the _bons mots_ being most tragically humorous, and the aphorisms of the several characters facetiously concatenative of the nouns contained in the leading name of the piece -- "_Love_ and _Murder_."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Various
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Factor, a young Forth-like (concatenative or stack-based) language.
Tenerife Skunkworks 2009
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In one of the comments to my earlier post, James Iry mentioned "I remain unconvinced that concatenative languages are really buying much over applicative languages, as interesting as they are".
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I have blogged on uses of combinator in concatenative languages like Joy - it is truly a great experience as a user to use such compositional API s as part of your application design.
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"extended sense", but they are incapable of satisfying (B2), precisely because their way of satisfying (B1) is committed to a non-concatenative realization of syntactic structures.
The Language of Thought Hypothesis Aydede, Murat 2004
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(The concatenative character is argued by some -- e.g., van Gelder
The Computational Theory of Mind Horst, Steven 2005
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(Probability of unity, subject to assumptions: first, that topologic social space is continuous and is included in the physical space of the Western Federation and, second, that at least one concatenative path exists between apprehended subjects and star group.
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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