Hello, I'm a tad curious what folks (along with Gary, Benedikt, and Bruno) think the next steps are for text in the hopeful thought that we are eventually heading towards a 1.0 release. Some thoughts that come to mind are:
(1) Go over lang with fine tooth comb and see what we think should move, (2) Go through the Lothaire "Applied Combinatorics on Words" book ( http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~duchamp/Books&more/Lothaire/(Encyclopedia_of_Mathematics_and_its_Applications_)M._Lothaire-Applied_Combinatorics_On_Words-Cambridge_University_Press(2005).pdf) and minimally implement some of the standard algorithms. (3) Implement, from the Lothaire book, some of the more complex stuff: heavier pattern matching, and/or natural language processing, and/or (4) Go straight for a release. I'm less for (4) because I think there's probably some smaller bits of code in lang that probably come over. I like the idea of (2) before heading out the door. Regarding (3), I would have to do considerable reading to make considerable headway here, which I'm not opposed to doing it would just merely prolong getting to a 1.0 release if we predicated the release upon my getting that done. So, what do you guys think? Cheers, -Rob
