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Absolutely not. Czech orthography is beautiful. Latin letters, clear featural marking of palatal consonants (č, š, ž, ď, ť) and simple marking of vowel length (á). The spelling is …

Machine translation is AI-hard. If this happens in 30 years we might as well have reached the singularity as computers will understand natural language and all of its meaning compl…

That sort of misses the point. It is pretty soul destroying to cold call that many people.

NLP is a domain specific problem. Of course it shouldn't be under computer science. Pure computer scientists are much less useful than linguists for these things. That's like argui…

Elisp would still a better much better language than python or Ruby (for emacs), especially now that lexical binding is becoming standard. Emacs people would like to move to scheme…

On the flip side, most of the world is multlingual or have at least been exposed to one other language. If you speak more than one language, mixing words from two or more basically…

I think you're confusing syntax and semantics. The claim is that C is not really semantically well defined, but your toplevel posts talk about the fact that C has well defined synt…

In Common Lisp, you write to source code files and then use ASDF/Quicklisp to compile/load that project. If you feel the need to create a standalone executable you can dump the ima…

No, programming languages are completely different from natural languages. You are conflating some concepts here. There are artificial programming languages which are context free …

Please tell me this is sarcasm! It's hard to tell. If it isn't, then all I have to say is that hacker news is written in the lisp dialect arc of Paul Graham, who got rich off of a …

It's not a question of inherent difficulty, which doesn't make sense to quantify absolutely. It's all about how similar it is to the random person's native language, phonologically…

The central axiom of linguistics is that no language is inherently more expressive than another. Yes, that means that conjugation and declension is no more complicated than strict …

Most distros provide sbcl binaries, but otherwise you're stuck building from the github mirror or downloading a binary from sbcl.org.

Good Common Lisp doesn't use lists. A Lisp app does nothing like processing lists; in fact, Common Lisp only uses list-processing for processing source-code (aka macros). It is muc…

SLIME emphasizes interactivity. Coupled with the fact that it uses the full power of Emacs (which is a small lisp vm, though a different dialect of lisp), you can do things like in…

Scheme is not "fully functional". Neither is Common Lisp. No one will say they are mostly imperative either. But they work; before AI winter there were many machines and OS's built…

No runtime consing of closures either! In fact, in Common Lisp there is a style of writing call-with-foo that takes a closure and wrapping that with a macro with-foo. Since the mac…

the article brings up a good point with 'systems language'. What is a systems language anyways? I guess C is, but whats the definition? Is common lisp a 'systems language'? After a…

Semantically, I'm writing in common lisp. If you mean the syntax, that's an ad hoc thing that comes up when writing in an HTML text box and emacs isnt here. But the syntax is shall…

Sure, ruby has nice syntax for lambda, but the entire point is not even having to worry about what goes into blocks and what not. Syntax is a bad excuse for abstraction. Lisp has h…

A higher order function doesn't serve the same purpose as a macro. A higher order function is meant to be applied, called, composed etc. A lisp macro is a different type of abstrac…

A higher order function doesn't serve the same purpose as a macro. A higher order function is meant to be applied, called, composed etc. A lisp macro is a different type of abstrac…

It takes around maybe ~15 minutes on my 6 year old laptop.

Interesting, very reminiscent of Lisp macros! Glad to see that python code transforming isn't too difficut.