Language and Computers (Edinburgh University Press, £14.95, ISBN 0 7486
0785 4) is Geoff Barnbrook’s beginners’ introduction to computer analysis of
texts. He starts students off with the quaint mysteries of 5.25″ floppy disks
(remember the bendy ones?). By the end, keen readers will dream in awk (a
text-processing language).
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