This contribution attempts a conceptual and practical introduction into the principles of wiring or constructing special machines for language processing tasks instead of programming a universal machine. C o n s t r u c t i o n w o u l d in principle provide higher descriptive adequacy in comp u t a t i o n a l l y based linguistics. After all, our heads do not apply programs on stored symbol arrays but are a p p r o p r i a t e l y wired for understanding or producing language.
