From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 30 13:11:03 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:11:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ELRDa-00025Q-AF for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:10:54 -0700 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ELRDa-00025J-0s for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:10:54 -0700 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:10:54 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: other parsable languages Message-ID: <20050930201054.GE1749@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <20050930183038.GA1749@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <20050930185626.GC1749@chain.digitalkingdom.org> <925d17560509301300h1e4f281dtcecb6906d098f4ba@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <925d17560509301300h1e4f281dtcecb6906d098f4ba@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 10691 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:00:33PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote: > On 9/30/05, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > Not "so difficult as to be intractable" but "generally believed > > to be impossible". > > > > http://teddyb.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/lojban/grammar/index.html > > > > Look for "Old Approach" at the bottom for an explication. > > I may be missing something, but there you only say that dealing > with terminators in BNF would require a 20-fold expansion of the > grammar, which may be difficult but not impossible, not even > intractable. Oh, and, for the record: "intractable" is an understatement. *If* It's possible, and I'm really not sure, I expect that it would take *hundreds* of person-hours. That's why I stopped trying. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ Reason #237 To Learn Lojban: "Homonyms: Their Grate!" Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.