Re: [techtalk] natural language vs. programming language

2001-03-26 Thread TiMoNeiRa
Thanks Andrew, This is very helpful :) r ;o) At 14:24 25/03/01 -0500, Andrew Plumb wrote: >Hi Roberta, > >On a somewhat related note, I highly recommend picking up a copy of the >O'Reilly "lex & yacc" book. Given your background in both >linguistics/translation and programming I think you'll

Re: [techtalk] natural language vs. programming language

2001-03-25 Thread Andrew Plumb
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, TiMoNeiRa wrote: [deletia] > I didn't become a translator after I got my B.Sc., I'm now doing the > engineering part of the translation of software, websites, multimedia, > etc... (localisation). There's this left/right hemisphere myth, and I > always thought it was an asse

[techtalk] natural language vs. programming language

2001-03-25 Thread TiMoNeiRa
Hi, Interesting, this natural language vs. programming language discussion... I'm very much a language person, my mother language is Dutch and when I was growing up I learned English and German from tv (we were very close to the German border, and English shows and movies were subtitled) and a