From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 30 11:50:31 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ELPxb-0000l7-2C for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:19 -0700 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.196]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1ELPxY-0000l0-Qy for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:18 -0700 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 71so3049wri for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:15 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=cZduo0AskAQAgBkgH4S8l/cFQozpMO+e7LCmqVwJtxrjZMHIw6od1mv5gg7IJuHpHCaMlINf53TQQk7ediA2yyZ3im7P9TLSDYeMLshlYp8UZhl5AtQ4gAfrDLXFxskT8LdvrmGTGG2V0LrgIAx/p6HADu1WXPfjVVWtpou+ygs= Received: by 10.54.122.11 with SMTP id u11mr961395wrc; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.142.3 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:50:15 -0400 From: Matt Arnold To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: other parsable languages In-Reply-To: <20050930183038.GA1749@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_4463_25615512.1128106215637" References: <20050930183038.GA1749@chain.digitalkingdom.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 10686 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list ------=_Part_4463_25615512.1128106215637 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 9/30/05, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > No spoken language has anything even vaguely approximating a > complete YACC grammar. > > This, unfortunately, includes Lojban; however, the reasons for that > are well-understood, Is this merely because someone ran out of time and interest and left it incomplete? Or because of puzzles that have proved so difficult as to be intractable? -epkat ------=_Part_4463_25615512.1128106215637 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 9/30/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>= wrote:
No spoken language has anything even vaguely approximating a
complete YA= CC grammar.

This, unfortunately, includes Lojban; however, the reaso= ns for that
are well-understood,

Is this merely because someone ran out of time and interest and left it incomplete? Or because of puzzles that have proved so difficult as to be intractable?
-epkat
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