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Dead Code Should Be Buried – Why I Didn't Contribute to NLTK
Natural Language Processing moves fast, so maintaining a good library means constantly throwing things away. Most libraries are failing badly at this, as academics hate to editorialize. This post explains the problem, why it's so damaging, and why I wrote spaCy to do things differently.
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Software EngineeringProgramming Languages2015
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 5, 2015 | Dead Code Should Be Buried – Why I Didn't Contribute to NLTK by Smerity | 140 | 62 |
