Although other animals have language, none so far have been shown to have syntax -- until now. Here, researchers show that Japanese great tits use combinations of notes to create different meanings.

A lot of programming languages these days feature lambda ... Modern C++ has lambda expressions. However, in C you have to define a function by name and pass a pointer — not a huge problem ...

With languages such as C and Fortran, code must be compiled into ... Consequently, the first time a function is keyed in, it might be slow, but subsequent runs are faster. And once the code ...

C syntax/language question. Musl's iconv implementation is generating clang warnings about adding integers to strings in its iconv implementation. I'd love to improve the code to silence the ...

and is meant to “unify the procedural and object-oriented portions of the language.” It does diverge from Objective-C in more than just the syntax, though; it also features variable types ...

Instead, syntax may be a general adaptation to social and behavioural complexity in communication systems. Language is one of humans' most important defining characteristics. It allows us to ...

This review has addressed a contradiction between recent studies of syntax in language and music based on neuroimaging (which suggest overlap) and neuropsychology (which suggest dissociation).

Historically, Cython used its own peculiar syntax, a hybrid of Python syntax and the C type declaration syntax, which made Cython hard to troubleshoot with Python tooling. Over time Cython began ...