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Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Curious Mathematical Phenomenon (PhysOrg)Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Curious Mathematical Phenomenon (PhysOrg)Posted Dec 2, 2008 21:44 UTC (Tue) by rengolin (guest, #48414)Parent article: Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Curious Mathematical Phenomenon (PhysOrg)
I can't quite follow how package relationship relate to natural language. Packages follow the rules by dependency while language follows by association.
Mixing a small subset of words can generate completely different meanings (phrasal verbs are a good example of that) while you can't just link gnugo to mesa and expect it to show a 3D GO board. Of course, if you would display it in 3D you would link to mesa, but the flexibility of natural languages are much greater than that of packages.
I think this is just another curiosity of how we can fit a set of things under known distribution rules, pretty much as Riemann did with the prime numbers... ;)
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