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- From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen Anderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pop
- Subject: Re: PD Pop
- Message-ID: <ANDERSON.92Nov18152845@sapir.cog.jhu.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:28:45 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.132626.24884@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <BxvuJ1.K7x@cs.bham.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Dept. of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University
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- In-reply-to: axs@cs.bham.ac.uk's message of 17 Nov 92 22:59:25 GMT
-
- Among all the systems Poplog is available for, I didn't see NeXT. At
- present, the NeXT has no common lisp available at all (except AKCL),
- since Franz seems to have lost interest in supporting the version of
- ACL that was once bundled with the machine (but is no more). I suspect
- that if a reasonably priced poplog system were available for the
- machine, a disproportionate number (out of the otherwise comparatively
- small installed base) of users might buy it just to get the
- lisp....and then learn how nice pop is, too.
-
- This comment actually belongs in another thread, about
- ease-of-learning and the utility of the system, but I'm too lazy to
- make another posting:
-
- Some years ago I installed poplog on the Sun 2's we had in the UCLA
- linguistics department. The amount of pedagogy included in the system
- (tutorials and a really nice interface between them and the rest of
- the system) was so well done that I was able to take a class of
- graduate students who barely knew how to log in (and certainly knew
- NOTHING about programming), teach them to type "help help", and come
- back seven or eight weeks later to find they had written serious
- programs to do word-structure analysis on a variety of exotic
- languages.
-
- --Steve Anderson
-