From phm@a2e.de Sat Sep 18 02:36:32 1999
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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 11:36:32 +0200 (CEST)
From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Lojban word processor for Windows?

On 17 Sep 1999 mark@kli.org wrote:

> >The idea of using Java sounds appealing for the same reasons given by the =
> >author below. There are some reservations, however. The Java wars are =
> >still raging and Java tends to be just a tad slow for the average =
> >end-user's expectations. I always know that if an app is dragging, then =
> >it's bound to be written in Java - but then, that might be Microsoft's =
> >way of "helping" java die out :)

Byte-compiled java programs are just as fast as any other.

> Eh, the fine-points of distinction can often be avoided in a simple
> enough application, and word-processing hardly needs blinding speed,
> so the slowness shouldn't matter much in that application. Java
> sounds like a Good Plan to me.

What about just writing 

- an ispell table for Lojban
- an Emacs mode for Lojban 

?

I don't see the point in having an extra word processor just for one
language. Also, I think there are far more important items on the
programming agenda: a good, portable glosser / automatic translator
of syntax-parsed lojban text.

-phm