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From: skyler@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
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Subject: Language and Computers
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Date: 29 Oct 88 18:04:19 GMT
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Of all the possible languages, computer languages are probably
about the most logical.

Therefore, if Cixous and Lacan et al are right, women would be
most alienated from computer languages.

And, as I understand it, AI assumes a highly logical understructure
to language--most theorists keep searching for the deep logic.  Hence,
if that is a purely male approach to language--if it is phallogocentric--
then women are left out.

-Trish