On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Dennis Eberl wrote: > On Sunday, June 30, 2002, at 02:42 PM, Mark Bigler wrote: > > > On Sunday 30 June 2002 14:04, Dennis Eberl wrote: > >> Isn't MIT that looney bin where that slime dog Noam Chomsky hides > >> out? Down the street from Harvard near the Charles River, right? > >> Don't fall in. > > > > What's you point here? What makes a person a slime dog? > <snip>
It's because Noam Chomsky invented the classification of Grammars and pioneered the use of Deterministic Finite Automata for parsing strings. Thus confusing generations of comp. sci. students who had to learn about him in computational linguistics. Or it could be because he is sharply critical of what is quaintly referred to as american imperialism, in which case let's move any further discussion to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
