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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 28 Apr 1993 04:50:17 MST
Date: 26 Apr 93 12:02:33 GMT
From: mercury.hsi.com!mlfarm!cs.arizona.edu!icon-group@uunet.uu.net
Subject: "Find that Niche!" contest?
Message-Id: <9304261202.AA37887@medinah.atc.ucarb.com>
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To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
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In the spirit of 'why isn't Icon, a truly useful language, more widely
recognized as such', the following...
1) needing a PRACTICAL application (i.e.- a program people would be willing
to pay buck$ for even if only shareware magnitude bucks) as proof of
'worthiness' makes sense.
2) The Icon project needs $upport (a loop is complete here already.)
so we need an idea (!) for an application that Icon is uniquely suited to
provide, that is not now being satisfied, that is not so big that the
startup resources required would make it impractical (save the blockbuster
until startup $$ are there from the first commercial Icon product).....
etc., etc.
Perhaps this also would make a good contest.
one thing that occurs to me from OCR user experience (now maybe three years
out of date) is that programs then available seemed to have no smarts at
the word level. If a word was clearly three letters and the first two were
"th" it didn't go ahead and try harder to find out if the third was "e" or
just guess "the".
As a linguist or programmer, I make a good industrial Organic Chemist so I
leave it to the experts to decide if there's anything in this posting worth
doing or modifying.
Forrest Richey