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Enguage was developed in C between 2011 and 2013, and in Java ever since.
It remains experimental; however,
it won the [http://www.bcs-sgai.org/micomp/pastcomps.php British Computer Society's Machine Intelligence Competition] in 2016.
The name "Enguage" is a portmanteau of the words Language and Engine - hence its unconventional spelling.
If you have '''make''' and '''git''' installed, Enguage can be downloaded from the source code repo
built, and run in three ways, thus:
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce] devised the philosophy of Pragmatism, that things are defined by their effect, which is summarised in his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_maxim Pragmatic Maxim]
===Dyadic Semiology===
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure Ferdinand de Saussure] created
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_in_General_Linguistics#Syntagmatic_and_paradigmatic_relations the first synchronic model of language] - how a language works at any one point in time.
He described a dyadic sign at the heart of this Semiology.
Here, a ''signifier'', a written or spoken artefact, ''signifies'' a mental image.
There is an '''arbitrary''' link between what it said and its signified mental image.
===Triadic Semiotics===
Around the same time, but independently,
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