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From: phipps@fortune.UUCP (Clay Phipps)
Newsgroups: net.ai
Subject: Re: Phrasal Analysis Paper/Programming Languages Applications ?
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Date: Wed, 14-Dec-83 23:05:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 14 23:05:25 1983
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Am I way off base, or does this look as if the VOX project
would be of interest to programming languages (PL) researchers ?
It might be interesting to submit to the next
"Principles of Programming Languages" (POPL) conference, too.

As people turn from traditional programming languages
(is Ada really pointing the way of the future ? <shudder !>) to other ways
(query languages and outright natural language processing) 
to obtain and manipulate information and codified knowledge,
I believe that AI and PL people will find more overlap in their ends,
although probably not their respective interests, approaches, and style.
This institutionalized mutual ignorance doesn't benefit either field.
One of these days, AI people and programming languages people
ought to heal their schism.

I'd certainly like to hear more of VOX, and would cheerfully accept delivery
of a copy of your paper (US Mail (mine): PO Box 2284, Santa Clara CA 95055).
My apologies for using the net for a reply, but he's unreachable
thru USENET, and I wanted to make a general point anyhow.

-- Clay Phipps

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