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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2023.10

Large Language Models: Compilers for the 4^{th} Generation of Programming Languages? (Short Paper)

Authors: Francisco S. Marcondes, José João Almeida, and Paulo Novais

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 113, 12th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2023)

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This paper explores the possibility of large language models as a fourth generation programming language compiler. This is based on the idea that large language models are able to translate a natural language specification into a program written in a particular programming language. In other words, just as high-level languages provided an additional language abstraction to assembly code, large language models can provide an additional language abstraction to high-level languages. This interpretation allows large language models to be thought of through the lens of compiler theory, leading to insightful conclusions.

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Francisco S. Marcondes, José João Almeida, and Paulo Novais. Large Language Models: Compilers for the 4^{th} Generation of Programming Languages? (Short Paper). In 12th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2023). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 113, pp. 10:1-10:8, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{s.marcondes_et_al:OASIcs.SLATE.2023.10,
  author =	{S. Marcondes, Francisco and Almeida, Jos\'{e} Jo\~{a}o and Novais, Paulo},
  title =	{{Large Language Models: Compilers for the 4^\{th\} Generation of Programming Languages?}},
  booktitle =	{12th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2023)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:8},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-291-4},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{113},
  editor =	{Sim\~{o}es, Alberto and Ber\'{o}n, Mario Marcelo and Portela, Filipe},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2023.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-185240},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2023.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: programming language, compiler, large language model}
}

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