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Re: .NET Compiler for Interactive Fiction JeffKenton@attbi.com (Jeff Kenton) (2003-04-05) |
Re: .NET Compiler for Interactive Fiction joachim_d@gmx.de (Joachim Durchholz) (2003-04-13) |
Re: parsing, was .NET Compiler for Interactive Fiction rpboland@math.uwaterloo.ca (Ralph P. Boland) (2003-04-15) |
Re: parsing, was .NET Compiler for Interactive Fiction cfc@TheWorld.com (Chris F Clark) (2003-04-15) |
Re: parsing, was .NET Compiler for Interactive Fiction joachim_d@gmx.de (Joachim Durchholz) (2003-04-20) |
Re: parsing, was .NET Compiler for Interactive Fiction bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com (Robert A Duff) (2003-04-20) |
Re: parsing, was .NET Compiler for Interactive Fiction bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com (Robert A Duff) (2003-04-27) |
Re: parsing, was .NET Compiler for Interactive Fiction rpboland@math.uwaterloo.ca (Ralph P. Boland) (2003-04-27) |
Re: parsing, was .NET Compiler for Interactive Fiction zivca@netvision.net.il (2003-04-27) |
Re: parsing, was .NET Compiler for Interactive Fiction joachim_d@gmx.de (Joachim Durchholz) (2003-04-27) |
From: | Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> |
Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
Date: | 27 Apr 2003 02:02:14 -0400 |
Organization: | The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA |
References: | 03-02-125 03-02-147 03-03-043 03-03-061 03-03-103 03-04-006 03-04-028 03-04-046 03-04-066 |
Keywords: | parse |
Posted-Date: | 27 Apr 2003 02:02:14 EDT |
Our esteemed moderator writes:
> [I don't see why it's artificial.
The problem I was referring to is "parsing computer programming
languages". This is, after all, comp.compilers, not
comp.artificial-intelligence. ;-)
It's an artificial problem, because human beings designed (overly
complex) languages. So then we need fancy parser-generator tools to
solve that problem.
>...Human languages have very complex grammars.
Yes, and more importantly nobody knows precisely what they are.
>... That's how we're wired to work. Why shouldn't computers
> adapt to us for a change?
Well, maybe they should, and maybe they shouldn't, but it doesn't
matter, because we have no idea how to make them do so. ;-)
I mean, I don't know of any parsing technology that can deal
with English even as well as a three year old. But as I said,
I wasn't referring to *that* problem.
- Bob
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