Title: Syntactica
Post by: cubist on November 23, 2007, 12:48:11 AM
Post by: cubist on November 23, 2007, 12:48:11 AM
Twice a year, the MIT Press bookstore has a loading dock sale. Two sales back, I was pawing through the stacks and came across something surprising: shrinkwrapped NeXT software. A small academic app that does grammatical analysis. Didn't exactly *need* it but seeing it now was surprising. Screenshot attached...
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Title: Syntactica
Post by: helf on November 26, 2007, 01:49:02 PM
Post by: helf on November 26, 2007, 01:49:02 PM
cool! Was that the only program? is it FAT or?
Title: Only one...
Post by: cubist on November 27, 2007, 10:18:14 PM
Post by: cubist on November 27, 2007, 10:18:14 PM
Quote from: "helf"cool! Was that the only program? is it FAT or?
Seems to be the only one but it looks like there might be a Prolog engine inside. Dual fat, copyright 1995. Websearch shows that they are or were porting to Java.