Re: Perl and linguistics. (Was: neatroff for Russian.)

[Oliver Corff]

Hi Ralph,

On 30/04/2023 10:33, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
>
> BTW, are you subscribed to groff@gnu.org?  If so, I'll stop mailing you
> directly too.
Indeed I am subscribed to groff@gnu.org --- I simply hit "Reply All"
because currently your address is in the "To:" field while the mailing
list is in the "Cc:" field.
> > and from there directly jumped to Perl the moment I familiarized
> > myself with X11 workstations at our university, due to its wonderfully
> > elliptical style (I am a linguist by training, and many of the Perl
> > language constructs just got alive in my brain the very instant I used
> > them for the first time).
> I assume you know that Perl's creator, Larry Wall, studied linguistics
> at the University of California, Berkeley?  That shows up in Perl's
> design and what he has written about Perl over the years, e.g. on
> Usenet.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall
Yes; every piece of Perl fell into its proper place even faster once I
understood Larry Wall's background.

> > Later I started learning Prolog, but never made it to Py (and anything
> > that follows).
> If you ever feel the need for a modern compiled language for that bit
> more speed, consider Go.  It has a simple clean syntax and two-thirds of
> its designers are Bell Labs alumni.  Arguably three-quarters given Russ
> Cox joining early on to shape the standard library.  https://go.dev

That forces me to step outside the safe space of P --- a daring move to
go! ;-)

Originally, I had looked to R, starting with raku, as it has some very
interesting elements quite useful for the majority of my tasks:
natural-language parsing and phrase comparisons in a mix of languages.

Best regards,

Oliver.

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