Scientific Research Publishing

Can There Be an Objective Language Tests? ()

1 Department of English Language, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, KSA. 2 English Language Institute, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA. This paper critically reviews the notion of objectivity in ...
acm.org

Let’s Be Objective about Large Language Models

1. Large Language Models: The End of History? Since the advent of the transformer and attention mechanisms [1] large language models (LLMs) have been all the rage, not only in the artificial ...
AppleInsider

Apple's top secret Swift language grew from work to sustain Objective C, which it now aims to replace

Work on Swift— Apple's surprise new programming language unveiled at WWDC— started development four years ago in conjunction with efforts to keep Objective C relevant. Swift now aims to quickly ...
ZDNet

Programming language popularity: Apple's Objective-C tumbles down the rankings

Developers started turning away from Objective-C years ago, thanks to the Swift language, Apple's replacement for Objective-C. But now that shift is finally being reflected in the Tiobe programming ...
Wired

The Subjective Charms of Objective-C

After inventing calculus, actuarial tables, and the mechanical calculator and coining the phrase “best of all possible worlds,” Gottfried Leibniz still felt his life’s work was incomplete. Since ...
Frontiers

The relationship between self-assessment of language proficiency and measures of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity: evidence from bilingual speakers of Italian in Croatia

A wide range of tools have been used to assess the language proficiency of bilingual speakers. The validity and high reliability of lexical diversity and syntactic complexity measures as instruments ...