Re: Does natural language skill translate to programming skill?

From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 10 Mar 2007 15:59:06 -0800

On Mar 10, 4:27 pm, Helmut Weber <nbhymsjxd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi David,

Some people would cite Perl as evidence that
linguists should be barred from using computers!

what would that mean?

I don't get it.

Most of the study of linguistics,
specially theoretical linguistics, involved programming,
especially long forgotten Prolog and Lisp.

It does????

Every human in the world (barring severe brain damage) is "adept" at
natural language.

.

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