Review of Martin Weisser's Essential Programming for Linguistics (University of Edinburgh Press)
[a few lines from my review of this book. The full review is available through the link at the bottom of this posting]
Book
Review
Essential
Programming for Linguistics
Martin
Weisser
Bayreuth
University, Germany.
Edinburgh
University Press (Edinburgh Advanced Textbooks in Linguistics, edited by Peter
Ackema and Mitsuhiko Ota); x+174pp, Edinburgh, UK; hardbound ISBN 978 0 7486
3855 0, $115; paperbound, ISBN 78 0 7486 3856 7, $29.50.
Reviewed
by
Brian Ó
Broin
William
Paterson University
This is a very disappointing book to come out of such a reputable
publishing house. Weisser claims that the book is “mainly intended [...] for
linguists without any prior programming experience” (1), but as just such a
scholar, with nevertheless considerable experience in multiple operating
systems and open-source software, this reviewer found the book almost useless
as a Perl primer for linguists.
In truth, there is little in this book that is not already
available in the much-friendlier Programming for Linguists by Michael
Hammond (Blackwell, 2003), which remains the best Perl introduction for linguists.
*Note: I see that Martin Weisser has responded below. I still stand by everything I say in the review.*
https://aclweb.org/anthology-new/J/J10/J10-4014.pdf
Labels: computational linguistics, cpan, linguistics, perl, programming, regex, weisser
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