Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!tekecs!orca!andrew From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: net.lang, as in "computer language" Message-ID: <1425@orca.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Jul-83 00:24:25 EDT Article-I.D.: orca.1425 Posted: Thu Jul 28 00:24:25 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jul-83 12:14:46 EDT References: cbosgd.130 Lines: 16 It's time once again to point out to the newcomers to the net (apparently including cbosgd!mark, who used to be an old-timer) that newsgroup "net.lang" is meant as a medium for discussions of COMPUTER languages. HUMAN languages are discussed in "net.nlang" (for Natural LANGuage). The VALSPEAK project notwithstanding, VALSPEAK is still classified as a human language. J. Howard Christ only knows how a discussion of "respect for strangers" came to rest here. floyd!trb, of course, is exempt from these criticisms, since anything submitted by an AI project must perforce be written in a computer language. -- Andrew Klossner (decvax!teklabs!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]