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Re: [lojban-beginners] questions about lojban



On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:21:33PM -0700, tjerk wrote:
> Op maandag 20 mei 2013 23:40:48 UTC+2 schreef v4hn het volgende:
> > There is no "normal place of a function", just mathematical convention. 
> > If you prefer reverse polish notation, they belong in the end. 
> 
> In the end is not handy compared to at the begin.

Not in lojban, right.
I just wanted to point out that mathematics doesn't care.

> > Talking about programming: 
> > object methods usually follow their object "object.method()". W.r.t. this 
> > usage lojban is quite natural. .u'i 
> 
> Lojban resembles functional programming more than object oriented 
> programming. The predicate is central, and that is a function.

It resembles neither. It's a language used for communication,
not for computation and comparisons to programming languages are all
invalid anyway in my opinion. Natural discourses usually have topics/focused
objects and those normally go in front in lojban. If you're a lisp programmer
and prefer prefix notation to everything else, you can do that by appending
{fa} to all of your bridi. Would be an interesting style of lojban to read.


mi'e la .van. mu'o

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