Linguistic computation is the fundamental and primitive branch of the art of cumputatlon~ as I have remarked off and on. The insight of yon Neumann~ that operations and data can be represented in the same storage device, is the linguistic insight that anything can have a name in any language. (Whether anything can have a definition is a different question.) I recall surprising a couple of colleagues with this r ~ a r k early in the 1960s, when I had to point out the obvious fact that compillng and interpreting are linguistic procedures and therefore that only in.
