Re: Does natural language skill translate to programming skill?

* Aidan Kehoe wrote:

Spamassassin, one of the few widely useful and deployed natural language
processing applications, was written entirely in Perl. Iʼm not aware of any
natural language processing applications written in Prolog or Lisp that have
served a useful purpose beyond a) absorbing research grant money or b)
proving that Prolog, Lisp and traditional computational linguistics
approaches are ill-suited to natural language processing.

Perl is good for surface-processing of written language. But since even
objects are awkward in Perl, it is ill suited for deeper (e.g.
grammatical or semantic) analysis.

Spamassassin doesn't use significant linguistic information, AFAIK.
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