Re: Polysemy in programming langs (was: Why does the meaning of words change?)

Ray Brown scripsit:

> >The same with instructions like: A = B, which in
> >reality mean "copy B to A".
>
> Yep - copying the value of location B into location A is, of course, what
> goes on in the computer & is probably how one would think of it at a low
> level; in high level programming it's rather:
> "variable A is assigned the value of variable B."
Except in linear logic, where you can only access the value of a variable
once, and so "move" really is important.  The resources on linear
logic seem to be a bit scattered: those interested should google for it.

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