Lee, John A. N.2013-06-192013-06-191975http://hdl.handle.net/10919/20270A comparison is made between the competence and performance models of Chomsky and the two elements of syntax proposed by McCarthy. These concepts are then expanded over utterances in natural languages and programs from programming languages, to cover the syntax of a program, the underlying abstract elements of the program, the meaning of the program, the algorithm which the program represents, the program itself and the statement of the problem being solved.application/pdfenIn CopyrightTechnical reportCS75013-Rhttp://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000794/01/CS75013-R.pdf