andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (07/28/83)
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]