X-Digest-Num: 150 Message-ID: <44114.150.890.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 17:57:16 -0700 From: William Tanksley Subject: Lojban and Rebol? X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 890 Content-Length: 897 Lines: 23 A guy named Sassenrath is presenting a new computer language named Rebol (www.rebol.org). It's an interesting looking language, but I was especially facinated by the fact that it's very mutable -- you can easily replace any and all of the syntactical elements with ones of your own choosing. It seems to me -- although I don't know either Rebol or Lojban very well -- that Rebol might serve well as a test vehicle for a Lojbanic computer language. Its parser is just a little bit too unsophisticated (we'd want a full spaces-irrelevant parser for the real thing), and its source isn't available (but it doesn't cost money). If an enhanced Rebol turns out to look interesting, perhaps it'll provide a guide towards implementing a real Lojban computer programming system. -- -William "Billy" Tanksley "But you shall not escape my iambics." -- Gaius Valerius Catullus