On Dec 6, 2006, at 12:29 PM, David Mercer wrote:
Excellent, Terence. I am looking forward to reading it.
In your last missive, you mentioned that you have had trouble getting
academic interest in your research. I've been meaning to ask ever
since I
read that -- since I am not myself an academic and have little
experience
publishing -- if anyone on this list knows the reason for this.
Certainly,
I have read some far more obscure papers in my own research than any I
imagine Terence would write on LL(*). Any input?
Probably because the parsing community is extremely small, because we
solved it in the 1970s. ;) I think that it is a very cliquish
community as well. This group is also dominated by Europeans who
thankfully typically keep the theory branch of everything alive.
Given the theoretical nature of many Europeans (not to knock the
Europeans in any way!), however, I am unable to write papers that
satisfy them given my bent. One could also propose that I simply suck
at writing papers. ;) Fundamentally, I also care much more about
producing quality software than I do about writing software that lets
me write papers. Let us face it: ANTLR must not seem too exciting to
theory crowd. What little grist is there, has already been published
on briefly. LL(*) is new, but really just an analog of the LAR(m)
work by Bermudez, though I suspect that my LL(*) is much more "real"
than LAR(m) (that was more prototype). Bermudez has told me that his
algorithm ran into a lot of landmines like mine originally did.
As another data point, I have no problems publishing in other areas
such as the webspace. My first paper on StringTemplate and model-
view separation was nominated for best paper that WWW2004, where
there was a 15% acceptance rate. 'course there is a lot of crap in
the webspace so it is probably not too hard to float above ;)
As an alternative, Terence, could you take out a patent on it?
Against my principles, I'm afraid. ;)
Ter
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