[conspire] Ruby, Python, Swift, and Languages

[Elise Scher]

My daughter Rebecca, different last name, is 18 years old and a freshman at
Northeastern University in Boston. She is majoring in computer science. She
programmed and participated in hackathons before college. She approves of
my starting to study computational linguistics.
     You see, I am already a bit of an amateur linguist. I grew up speaking
English and some Yiddish. I studied French and German in high school and a
bit in college. I learned about phonemes and such while taking classes
about teaching younger students to read. That was part of my studies to get
my preliminary special education teaching credential. I even took one extra
class in that area. I also had to take a class in speech and (non) verbal
communication. I know something about nonverbal communication systems from
both school and work. I have taught most all kinds of students on the mild
to moderate to severe spectrum. I have also taught lower levels of math. I
am not a math genius, like my son Joseph. But I have taught Algebra several
times. Even some trig and geometry. I would say I am better than average at
math. The average is quite low.
     Anyhow, I have been thinking about studying computational linguistics
for a while now. I have started to watch free videos on CL. I hope to study
this at a university - remotely if possible.
     Rebecca claims that CL is in demand. We will see. I just like to study.

Elise Scher

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020, 12:59 AM Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net> wrote:

> On 14Feb2020 12:49pm (-0800), Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020, at 6:06 AM, Nick Moffitt wrote:
> > > 2: That a novel mapping of MVC-style thinking into a
> > > template/dispatch/ORM/action model of Web development was a pretty
> good
> > > way forward.
> >
> > Would you classify Django (in its current state) as being like that? It
> does seem to have inherited that, but I don't recall it being like that
> earlier along in its life cycle.
>
> I was absolutely thinking of Django, as well as flask.  There were other
> attempts (like "web.py" or whatever it was called) but the boomer rush of
> 2009 or so has settled down into a few big players as usually happens.
>
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