On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 17:25, John Klein wrote: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Steve Simmons wrote: > > @> > . . . Linguists have been using "disambiguate" for a long > @> > time. It earns my vote as one of the ugliest words I know, but it is > @> > absolutely too useful (at least in my professional language) to do > @> > without. > @> > @> It also has some usage in the relational calculus, the theory that > @> underlies relational databases. > > Plus in game development, for IF text parsers. > And in programming language design/implementation, i.e. designing and writing parsers.