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Re: counting commas



On 2024-01-20, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
>
> Regardless of which grammar rules are right, wrong, or optional, the point
> of this is that parsing natural language text is *stupidly difficult*.
> A person who has to ask why "grep -c" doesn't count the number of commas
> in a single line of text probably isn't able to take on this quest.

I can see why parsing natural language may be difficult, but not why
counting commas should be particularly difficult.

> Any serious inquiries about natural language parsing should be directed
> to an appropriate artificial intelligence mailing list instead of this one.
>
>


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