Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 22:50:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199710260350.WAA03709@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: HACKER G N Sender: Lojban list From: HACKER G N Subject: Re: APL & Lojban To: Lojban List In-Reply-To: <0EIK00LU86IB06@newcastle.edu.au> X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 494 X-From-Space-Date: Sat Oct 25 22:51:07 1997 X-From-Space-Address: LOJBAN@CUVMB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote: > my appreciation of APL and of Lojban share the same source -- > a liking for the unusual plus a fondness of conciseness. I have to comment on this: I do like Lojban aesthetically because it is a very strange language. Esperanto, in contrast, is so European that it is too familiar to me; it's boring. I am also fond of conciseness, but I don't find Lojban particularly concise. Specifically, it takes a lot of syllables to say anything. Geoff