Re: Lisp or Smalltalk for Specific Suicide Mission (er...Project)?

From: Gorbag (gorbag_at_invalid.acct)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:47:00 -0500

"Michael D. Kersey" <mdkersey@hal-pc.org> wrote in message
news:41f164a3$0$64584$a726171b@news.hal-pc.org...
> Matthias wrote:
> > "Michael D. Kersey" <mdkersey@hal-pc.org> writes:
> >>For NLP Lisp is the only show in town.
> >
> > Bold statement. Could you explain why?
>
> OK, Lisp or Prolog!8-P

While that was true at one point, a lot of NLP is done in C and Java these
days. Particularly as there has been a big push for statistical methods, but
even amoung the more traditional approaches, the grad students coming in
know C++ or Java, so that's what they use. Sure, *I* use Lisp, but I learned
it back in the 70s, and really haven't used anything else since the mid
80s...

On the other hand, a lot of recent NLP is just reconstructing older systems
too. For the price of learning Lisp they could be making a lot more genuine
progress (at least on the system building end; useful theory construction
continues at the usual glacial pace).

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