They were being read, even at the time. Although an NLP disaster at the time, it was a boon for programming languages. Old story in new package: http://www.bbc

They were being read, even at the time. Although an NLP disaster at the time, it was a boon for programming languages. Old story in new package: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120529-a-cold-war-google-translate http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120529-a-cold-war-google-t... (Chomsky and all the compiler people got their funding from there)