From the Least Effort Point of View,  an Investigation on Language

Weihan Huang

doi:10.26821/IJSRC.10.9.2022.100902

Authors

Weihan Huang Master of Computer Science Department, State University of New York, at Buffalo, U.S.A. Master of Physics Department, National Hsing Hua University, Taiwan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26821/IJSRC.10.9.2022.100902

Keywords:

Association, Information, Language, Least Effort

Abstract

Naming : Language. What is language? And why do we need language? This paper tries to answer these two questions from the least effort point of view. The mechanism of the least effort way is firstly given to answer the question of what language is. Then I show 5 major types of using language in the least effort way to carry information : 1. Function Call which carries information of function definition, 2. Referential Use which carries information of properties and functions, 3. Interpretations which carry more than one interpretation, 4. Association of Memory for fast search, and 5. Abstract Conceptualization with reasoning within small segments. These are all reasons why we need language. Secondly, I state the mechanism of least effort way in the reverse direction : from large information to small segments, in contrast with the mechanism in the forward direction : from small segments to large information. Lastly, some important examples are provided in programming language, natural language, logic language, and the poetry.

References

Information

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information

Function call, Function definition, Actual argument

In the function definition f(x,y)=x+y. The f is called the function name, and x and y are called the formal parameters. A function call f(1,2) contains its function name f and the actual arguments 1and 2.

Merge sort

https://www.educative.io/edpresso/how-to-implement-a-merge-sort-in-java

Complexity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity

Referential use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference

Interpretations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretation_(philosophy)

Association of memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_memory_(psychology)

Broadway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre