almost old enough to be president
you hate chomsky for his political opinions, i hate chomsky for his linguistics opinions (and also his political opinions). we are not the same
IDK about natural languages, but his work has been useful in computing. We have him to thank for regex, for instance.
i mean he’s been hugely influential in linguistics and it’d be dumb to pretend he hasn’t made contributions of value, but it’s fun to dunk on him and there’s definitely a fair bit that’s somewhat controversial and that i disagree with
Without being at all versed in linguistics myself, can you share some of what he’s done in the field that you think is wrong or off the mark? I’m sure I can find some linguistics criticism of him on the web, but I’d be curious to read some criticism of Chomsky particularly from a hexbear’s perspective.
edit: sorry, I only now saw that The_Jewish_Cuban already asked you the same question.
Sheila Adele Greibach (born 6 October 1939 in New York City) is an American researcher in formal languages in computing, automata, compiler theory and computer science. She is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and notable work include working with Seymour Ginsburg and Michael A. Harrison in context-sensitive parsing using the stack automaton model.
You learn something neg every day. I take it this is one among many instances of a man taking all the credit for something a woman played a much bigger part in creating/discovering?
dined at 95 years old 😔
