Re: Stupid module and pregexp questions

[Harri Haataja]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:59:02PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> > From: Robert Marlow <address@hidden>
> > Whoa! when I saw "Chomsky" I at first thought of the Anarchist
> > Linguistics Professor Noam Chomsky. I didn't realise it actually WAS
> > named after him. I only really knew of his Anarchist acheivements
> > (being an anarchist myself and all). never thought I'd come accross
> > an application of his Linguistics research. That's made my day,
> > thanks!
> What frustrates me is that web resources on this topic seem to be so
> thoroughly lacking.   I actually did, I'm sorry to admit, spend about
> 2 hrs looking for a good link on Google that covered the topic.
> 
> The cited wikpedia entries are fine, in their way, but if you don't
> already know what they're talking about they won't help.   There's a
> gazillion instances of "lecture notes" from this or that college
> course that mostly just duplicate the wikpedia entry.   There's not
> much beyond that.

Well, Wikipedia is there to be made better. The easiest step is to
complain about the problem on a matching talk page.

> There's an on-line doc from CMU, aimed at high-school students in a
> summer science program, that is a fantastic one-pager (even for "grown
> ups") -- but that is incomplete and non-rigorous.

.. or add links.

> It's really disappointing that if someone asks "where can I learn the
> meaning of the chomsky hierarchy" the answer has to be "go to the
> library or buy a book."   

Indeed. (And someone already mentioned the poor state of public
libraries wrt these kind of topics.)