Well I only tried this out then came back to programming after a few years, but I started a Ph.D. program for a Classical Studies degree (Greek & Latin). I fini

Well I only tried this out then came back to programming after a few years, but I started a Ph.D. program for a Classical Studies degree (Greek & Latin). I finished the Masters but figured out it wasn't for me and skipped the dissertation. Nevertheless it seems to really impress people. I like to say that if you can read Greek you can certainly read Perl or C++. :-) There are tons of opportunities to apply tech to ancient languages. The problem is there isn't much money in it. I'd love to see a well-executed online critical edition with hyperlinks and diffs for comparing manuscripts. I wrote a script once to read in dactylic hexameter and automatically scan it. A tool to export L'Annee Philologique entries as bibtex would be awesome, but their native format is a mess, and you'd have to detect bibliography words like "and", "ed.", etc. in French, German, Spanish, and others. When I was at Penn I kept hearing stories about how one of the sons of Hewlitt or Packard (I forget which) had a lot of classics-and-programming projects, but I don't know any specifics.