> Somebody has this as their .sig
>
> "Natural language has evolved to the present point in a way
> optimally to
> meet the needs for two-way human communication." -- Vincent E.
> Guiliano,
> "In Defense of Natural Language," 1972
Re: Your Guru Paul Graham is getting trashed on Slashdot. ... > 4> Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language,... > 5> Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web ... I was just going to say that would make an awesome .sig.... I think the only reason Lisp isn't good for everything (depending on ... (comp.lang.lisp)
Re: Natural Language Praised ...Ron Hardin wrote: ... > Somebody has this as their .sig... > "Natural language has evolved to the present point in a way optimally to ... the problem is that each language is infinite so that a single linguist ... (sci.lang)
Re: Natural Language Praised ... > Ron Hardin wrote: ... >> Somebody has this as their .sig... >> "Natural language has evolved to the present point in a way optimally to ...Prev by Date: ... (sci.lang)
Natural Language Praised ... Somebody has this as their .sig..."Natural language has evolved to the present point in a way optimally to ... "In Defense of Natural Language," 1972 ...Prev by Date: ... (sci.lang)
Re: ``Whom rule ... If he intends to use 'whom', it should be 'whom to hate, whom to ... He picks ``who'' to avoid pedanticism....natural language wants ``who.'' ... There's no point in trying to confuse Ron Hardin with facts. ... (sci.lang)