X-Digest-Num: 152 Message-ID: <44114.152.908.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 12:41:47 -0700 From: William Tanksley Subject: Re: (no subject) X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 908 Content-Length: 1141 Lines: 31 On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 09:38:31PM +0000, dex@SYSLINK.MCS.COM wrote: > From: dex@SYSLINK.MCS.COM > Have you considered Forth? You can easily redefine anything in > it. In fact, writing a program is just defining a word. That > word is then available for use in defining other words; and so > your dictionary grows. I'm a Forth fanatic, actually -- but in order to make a Lojbanic Forth we'd have to invent a pretty serious dialect of Lojban to handle the stack. It would be pretty cool, I admit, but I don't have the skill. I suggested Rebol because it has most of the features of Forth, but it also has and uses a parser. Also possible is Pliant; Pliant is open source, which is more suitable to Lojbanic use, but it's also a more complicated language. I suspect that Pliant could be made into a complete Lojban executor, but there'd be much more work to get initial results. Oh well. Those are both imperative languages. Perhaps we'd have to base things on a logical language, like Mercury, anyhow. -- -William "Billy" Tanksley "But you shall not escape my iambics." -- Gaius Valerius Catullus