From cbmvax!uunet!PICA.ARMY.MIL!protin Wed Jun 26 19:00:07 1991 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 17:22:39 EDT From: "Arthur W. Protin Jr." (GC-ACCURATE) To: lojban-list@snark.thyrsus.com Cc: STEVE L RICE Subject: Re: Institute Loglan Message-Id: <9106261722.aa04141@COR4.PICA.ARMY.MIL> Status: RO Folks, While I can appreciate the discomfort of the logli at the term "Institute Loglan", the many analogies they offer do not seem to me to reflect this situation. I like the problem to names of the versions of the C programming language. In the beginning, there was the definitive text by Kernihan & Richie (now referred to as K&R or "the white book"), for a combination of technical and political reasons the American National Standards Institute adopted a different but closely related definition. Thus we have "C", "K&R C" and "ANSI C". I do not have enough documentation to prove my case yet, but I would expect that any ANSI discussion or document that referred to C would mean "ANSI C" and that they would qualify it when talking about the original. Similarly, on lojban-list, we feel a need to qualify any statement that applies only to one or more versions of Loglan other than Lojban. thank you, Arthur Protin Arthur Protin These are my personal views and do not reflect those of my boss or this installation.