From Maciej’s blog:
To a computer hacker, treating a text like a raw data stream is an amusing challenge, but there are people who would object to this kind of thing a reductionist attack on a living text. When I was first learning Perl, I remember writing a toy program that read all my letters to my girlfriend, and her letters to me, and spit out lists of words that only one of us had ever used. I thought it was a neat trick, while she was livid with me for treating our correspondence as just a bag of words.
Gender based problem or geek vs non-geek issue?
