Sydney M. Lamb's informative description of The Digital Computer as an Aid in Linguistics, Lg. 37.382–412, is most welcome as a clear and systematic exposition of an important development in linguistic research. Lamb's article deals with a type of electronic computers (the IBM 704, 709, 7090) which represent, in general conception and design, a class of machines oriented primarily towards scientific computations and emphasising internal speed and large core storage capacity. This is the type of machine which is most widely represented in American universities, reflecting the needs of the science and engineering departments. Some institutions, however, have installed electronic computers which were designed with a somewhat different function in mind and which are, in some respects at least, often better equipped as aids in linguistic research. These are, broadly speaking, the machines intended not predominantly for scientific work but also for data processing, and thus especially suitable for the manipulation, organization, and classifying of large bodies of numeric and alphabetic data. It may be perhaps too optimistic to hope that the needs and desires of linguists will carry much weight when it comes to the acquisition or replacement of computers for general university use. But with the growing awareness of the importance of mechanolinguistics, linguistic applications of the computer may be more frequently considered in the future when such administrative decisions are made.