"The first math language Fortran was soon displaced in business by more readable code afforded by Cobol's longer variable names."
Fortran was displaced in business because early Fortran had no structures and random record-oriented file access, and because of some silly government requirements for computer system procurement. "There are three basic statements in any computer language: assignment, If then else, and loop." ...except for those languages that have none of these three? I'd rather argue that all languages have 1) primitives, 2) means of composition, 3) means of abstraction. Some languages lack the third (Excel?) but these are not especially useful on large scale. "Now to complete the project without corporate resources, it is necessary to select an NLP application which is both more powerful and physically smaller than IBM's Watson which won against Jeopardy's best players. The most powerful NLP text in history is the Bible which is only 4 Mb instead of Watson's 4 Tb." I have absolutely no idea what "powerful" is supposed to mean in this context, but I'd bet the Reuters corpora against the Bible any day of the week. Bible sounds like a horrible source material for any automated NLP endeavor, no matter whether research oriented or production-oriented, since it's on all levels (lexical, semantic, factual) schizophrenically disconnected from modern textual material. "This level of NLP mastery in or external to an outside and indoor robot could be used to end poverty, illiteracy, crime, terrorism, and war around the world by growing and serving food, educating and entertaining a family with the same language and religion cradle to Ph.D" ........what? O_o; - Gath
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