Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 64264 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2005 18:51:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m6.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 30 Sep 2005 18:51:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.81.49.134) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 30 Sep 2005 18:51:15 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ELPyS-0000lu-Op for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:51:12 -0700 Received: from chain.digitalkingdom.org ([64.81.49.134]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1ELPxw-0000lG-Ps; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:42 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1ELPxb-0000l7-2C for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:19 -0700 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.196]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1ELPxY-0000l0-Qy for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:18 -0700 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 71so3049wri for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.122.11 with SMTP id u11mr961395wrc; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.142.3 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:50:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20050930183038.GA1749@chain.digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_4463_25615512.1128106215637" References: <20050930183038.GA1749@chain.digitalkingdom.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) X-archive-position: 10686 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: matt.mattarn@gmail.com X-list: lojban-list X-Spam-Score: -2.4 (--) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Originating-IP: 64.81.49.134 X-eGroups-Msg-Info: 1:12:0:0 X-eGroups-From: Matt Arnold From: Matt Arnold Reply-To: matt.mattarn@gmail.com Subject: [lojban] Re: other parsable languages X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=116389790; y=TlF3KHRA1eFGKyORstfNHAZan8wUK0o3Lnr1zfWvc7Uo9Prw4A X-Yahoo-Profile: lojban_out X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 25071 Content-Length: 1503 Lines: 38 ------=_Part_4463_25615512.1128106215637 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 9/30/05, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > No spoken language has anything even vaguely approximating a > complete YACC grammar. > > This, unfortunately, includes Lojban; however, the reasons for that > are well-understood, Is this merely because someone ran out of time and interest and left it incomplete? Or because of puzzles that have proved so difficult as to be intractable? -epkat ------=_Part_4463_25615512.1128106215637 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 9/30/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>= wrote:
No spoken language has anything even vaguely approximating a
complete YA= CC grammar.

This, unfortunately, includes Lojban; however, the reaso= ns for that
are well-understood,

Is this merely because someone ran out of time and interest and left it incomplete? Or because of puzzles that have proved so difficult as to be intractable?
-epkat
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