From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Sat Mar 07 18:35:50 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:35:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Lg8rm-0002x7-TI for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:35:50 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Lg8rm-0002x0-QE for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:35:50 -0800 Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 18:35:50 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Lojban/Interactive Fiction panel at Penguicon? Message-ID: <20090308023550.GB15637@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-archive-position: 15352 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, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:08:15PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote: > Hey jbopre, > > I managed to persuade Andrew Plotkin to attend Penguicon. He is > one of the foremost contemporary authors of Interactive Fiction, > AKA "text adventures". For more information, please see > http://www.brasslantern.org/beginners/ and http://ifdb.tads.org/ > Andrew is giving a talk about programming language design, > specifically the Inform 7 programming language that is a subset of > English used as source code for Interactive Fiction. > > I'm trying to come up with new ideas for panel discussions he can > be a part of. And then I realized, since we have so many > Lojbanists attending Penguicon this year, what if there is a topic > that the Lojban community and Interactive Fiction programmers have > in common? Like parsers. I myself don't know enough to flesh out > the concept. Any other overlap topics? Do you have any help to > offer? I don't know that I have anything useful to add, but I did want to point out http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Colossal+Cave&bl=y -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.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.