Re: Does natural language skill translate to programming skill?

Hi Brian,

[...]

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

Preposterous nonsense. Prolog is about 35 years old, and
even Lisp is only about 50 years old; linguistics is *much*
older than either.

[...]

Don't let me be misunderstood.
I was talking about my studies
and was trying to point out that
since there is computational linguistics
it is an important tool of research.

And just a tool.

Some of my professors had never touched
a computer keyboard, which didn't make their
work any less important or less brilliant.

However, IMHO, today programming skills
are more important and I wonder,
whether a study of linguistics can
be complete without it.

--
Helmut Weber




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