<div dir="ltr"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">>> "The seeds of your confusion are very evident from your message".
> The seeds of your unsubstantiated assumptions about me are very evident from yours.</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">OK Michael, I can see I'm not helping. I'll stop.</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">On NLP (a topic on which I have some expertise), I'll save you time in your search: Haskell is not suitable. Use a NLP tool. Programming languages and their semantics are so unlike natural languages as to be useless.</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">I found your "primer for the lexical semanticist" to be full of strained and unhelpful analogies. I was surprised it omitted mention of Montague Grammar -- which draws from Lambda calculus/Combinators, and would be the obvious go-to _if_ Haskell were to be applicable.</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">On unsubstantiated assumptions:</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">> I started programming at 15.</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Me too. (Dartmouth BASIC on a teletype over a dial-up line to a timeshare service.)</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">> It's been a very rare year, even after leaving the software profession, when I didn't write at least some code, learning new things in the process.</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Me ditto.</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">> Which means I've been looking at programming languages and how to implement things at the most appropriate level of abstraction possible for just a few months shy of fifty years.</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">For me, a few months over fifty years.</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">(BTW nothing you've said persuades me away from recommending the best way to learn Haskell is via Lambda-calculus.)</font></pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">AntC</font></pre></div>