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Comment by semi-extrinsic

15 hours ago

What part of this can't be done by a novice programmer who knows a little pattern matching and has enough patience to write down a hundred patterns to match?

Long tail, coping with typos, and understanding negation.

If natural language was as easy as "enough patience to write down a hundred patterns to match", we'd have had useful natural language interfaces in the early 90s — or even late 80s, if it was really only "a hundred".