From lojbab@xxxxxx.xxxx Sun May 30 08:21:13 1999 X-Digest-Num: 153 Message-ID: <44114.153.911.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 11:21:13 -0400 From: Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group From: William Tanksley >On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 09:38:31PM +0000, dex@SYSLINK.MCS.COM wrote: >> From: dex@SYSLINK.MCS.COM >> Have you considered Forth? You can easily redefine anything in >> it. In fact, writing a program is just defining a word. That >> word is then available for use in defining other words; and so >> your dictionary grows. > >I'm a Forth fanatic, actually -- but in order to make a Lojbanic Forth >we'd have to invent a pretty serious dialect of Lojban to handle the >stack. It would be pretty cool, I admit, but I don't have the skill. > >I suggested Rebol because it has most of the features of Forth, but it >also has and uses a parser. > >Also possible is Pliant; Pliant is open source, which is more suitable to >Lojbanic use, but it's also a more complicated language. I suspect that >Pliant could be made into a complete Lojban executor, but there'd be much >more work to get initial results. > >Oh well. Those are both imperative languages. Perhaps we'd have to base >things on a logical language, like Mercury, anyhow. Lojban also has been demonstrated to be more or less isomorphic with PROLOG, which makes it an obvious choice - you just need to decide what to do for all the predicates. Nick Nicholas did a partial interpretation of Lojban using, I believe, LISP. It is on the Lojban fileserver, and covered the core portions of the language. lojbab ---- lojbab ***NOTE NEW ADDRESS*** lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: see Lojban WWW Server: href=" http://xiron.pc.helsinki.fi/lojban/ " Order _The Complete Lojban Language_ - see our Web pages or ask me.