Re: Does natural language skill translate to programming skill?

"Aidan" == Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Aidan> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall . (Larry invented
Aidan> the language; his formal qualifications were in
Aidan> linguistics, but I’ve never seen a really satisfactory
Aidan> explanation of what aspect of it.)

I see. But Perl is the computer language with the ugliest (but
convenient) syntax. It's not context free (of course) nor LALR(1).
It is said that there is so far only 1 implemenation of the parser for
Perl. Nobody is ambitious enough to implement another, because the
grammar is so complicated.

For comparison, many AI reseach try to process natural language using
LISP or Prolog, whose grammars are so much more regular and simpler
than Perl.


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