Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 00:11:01 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199710260511.AAA05350@locke.ccil.org> Reply-To: HACKER G N Sender: Lojban list From: HACKER G N Subject: Re: Using Lojban for Computer-related applications, AI, programming, etc. X-To: Lojban List To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: <0EIK005EJRAJNO@newcastle.edu.au> X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 2126 Lines: 46 On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Thom Quinn wrote: > Please read the following clipping from the Lojban Website. Has anyone > tried using Lojban for computer programming, AI, or any real computer > application? IF so, please get back to me! I'd be interested in the answer to this too. I don't even know of any COMPILER or INTERPRETER for Lojban, let alone how anyone would profess to program a computer with it. > > Thanks, > Thom Quinn > thomquinn@esosoft.com > swo@execpc.com > > ---------------------------------------------- > Are there other uses for Lojban? > > Yes, several. Due to its unambiguous grammar and simple structure, > it also can be easily parsed (broken down for analysis) by computers, > making it possible for Lojban to be used in the future for > computer-human interaction, and perhaps conversation. Lojban's structure > is similar to existing artificial intelligence (AI) programming > languages, and will likely be a most powerful tool in AI processing, > especially in the storing and processing of data about the world and > people's conceptions of it. > There are also linguists interested in Lojban's potential as an > intermediate language in computer-aided translation of natural > languages. Because Lojban was designed to be culturally neutral, and has > a powerful vocabulary easily learned by people of different language > origins, some are interested in Lojban's potential as an international > language. These are only the beginnings of the Lojban applications that > will be developed in the future. > > Is Lojban a computer language? > > Lojban was designed as a human language, and not as a computer language. > It is therefore intended for use in conversation, reading, writing, and > thinking. However, since Lojban can be processed by a computer much > more easily than can a natural language, it is only a matter of time > before Lojban-based computer applications are developed. Learning and > using Lojban doesn't require you to know anything about computers or to > talk like one. > -------------------------------------- >