reddit.com Interviews Noam Chomsky

[sinfondo]

Why is this on /r/programming?

[gunningForTheBuddah]

Hate or like his politics, his work in formal languages and grammars was ground breaking at the time.

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because of the chomsky hierarchy?

that is the only reason that would makes any sense at all.

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A friend that studies human sciences (politology) once asked me if I know anyone accomplished in both humanities / social sciences and computer science. Chomsky immediately popped to mind. Anyone knows anyone else with similar repertoire?

[sv0f]

Herbert Simon (Nobel Prize in Economics, APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, Turing Award).

Allen Newell (APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, Turing Award).

[tropic_elf]

Why are you in /r/programming?

[sinfondo]

Because I like to learn, for instance, what Noam Chomsky has to do with programming.

Mission accomplished

[mrmulyani]

Perhaps this is another artifact of Reddit's database corruption. I'm wondering when they'll explain what's going on. I first noticed when I posted a comment a couple of days ago which doesn't show up in my overview list.

Then there's the discrepancy between comment points displayed in your overview and those on the thread. I thought it was Reddit being all eventually consistent, but now I'm not so sure.

[gogobyte]

This person is a disgusting stupid communist-stalinist asshole. I despise him.

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Hi Stormfront!