From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Sep 30 12:52:48 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ELQvu-0001Ym-Hw for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:52:38 -0700 Received: from cmsout01.mbox.net ([165.212.64.31]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1ELQvo-0001YZ-Up for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:52:38 -0700 Received: from cmsout01.mbox.net (cmsout01.mbox.net [165.212.64.31]) by cmsout01.mbox.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865A278183 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:52:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ca28 [165.212.11.128] by cmsout01.mbox.net via smtad (C8.MAIN.3.26F); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:52:30 GMT X-USANET-Source: 165.212.11.128 IN rkeppel@usa.net ca28 X-USANET-MsgId: XID773JidT1f0317X01 Received: from uwdvg002.cms.usa.net [165.212.8.2] by ca28 (ASMTP/) via mtad (C8.MAIN.3.25R) with ESMTP id 085JidT1b0491M28; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:52:27 GMT X-USANET-Auth: 165.212.8.2 AUTO rkeppel@usa.net uwdvg002.cms.usa.net Received: from 24.20.217.5 [24.20.217.5] by uwdvg002.cms.usa.net (USANET web-mailer CM.0402.7.32); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:52:26 -0000 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:52:26 -0700 From: Ryan Keppel To: Subject: [lojban] Re: other parsable languages X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (CM.0402.7.32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <968JidT1A8272S02.1128109946@uwdvg002.cms.usa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Z-USANET-MsgId: XID085JidT1C0491X28 X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) X-archive-position: 10688 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rkeppel@usa.net Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list ------ Original Message ------ Received: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:32:30 AM PDT From: Matt Arnold To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] other parsable languages > I know that Lojban is hailed as "parsable" by a computer, but does this mean > that it is merely parsed more easily? Or that no other language has a > complete YACC grammar? Can someone offer a little more detail to someone who > is not a specialist? > -Matt > YACC is just a (pretentiously named) parser. I would be more interested if any other language has a complete EBNF grammar, without regard to a particular tool. -From Ryan. To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.