From iad@MATH.BAS.BG Sun Sep 03 01:07:17 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26048 invoked from network); 3 Sep 2000 08:07:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 3 Sep 2000 08:07:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lnd.internet-bg.net) (212.124.64.2) by mta2 with SMTP; 3 Sep 2000 08:07:15 -0000 Received: from math.bas.bg (ppp19.internet-bg.net [212.124.66.19]) by lnd.internet-bg.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA21854 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 11:22:26 +0300 Message-ID: <39B1F8E5.1FC1435E@math.bas.bg> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 10:08:22 +0300 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] samselpla vs. samjva References: <20000902172224.B658C26333@mail.taral.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ivan A Derzhanski Taral wrote: > On 2 Sep, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I would agree, but "program" is more than "commands". "seltibyste" > seems to be more "computer script" than "computer program". Or how about an alphabetically arranged list of commands in an index at the end of a book on some programming language? > Consider a Haskell program. > That's certainly not a list of commands... Yes, in some cases it is a set of ... not necessarily commands, no. A Prolog program is a partly ordered set of clauses ({jufra}). > I think that the concept of "computer" needs to be in there > somewhere. Otherwise, the words for "computer" and "computer > program" are not at all related. Somehow that strikes me as wrong. In English. In most other languages that I can think of one can add `computer' to `program(ming)', but one usually does not. --Ivan