[lojban-beginners] Re: Hi epkat...

[Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn@gmail.com>]

Awesome. A massively-multi-word automated lookup-- this is the answer
to my dreams. I entered intentionally un-grammatical text and it didn't
just choke on it like jboski does! It went ahead and told me what the
words meant anyway! You are my hero. Next to have it look up English
words in a Lojban dictionary. Better yet, take English user input and
look up each word in an English thesaurus, then look up the Lojban for
each of those.
How portable might this someday be to such platforms as Palm OS or a Konfabulator widget? I would pay money.
-Matt

On 9/14/05, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:

Matt Arnold wrote:
> I'm extremely encouraged to hear you're programming Lojban tools. That's
> mainly what I wanted to discuss with you. Are you not able to talk about
> features yet?

Oh, I can talk. I just am always hesitant to talk about what I "plan" to
do or "might" do, etc. Talk is cheap, as they say. ;)

All I've got so far is code that parses cmavo.txt, gismu.txt, and
noralujv.txt and produces lists (arrays and hashes) where words can be
looked up and so on.

I know those lists are old, but they were handy. If I do anything
really serious, I will work with data from jbovlaste instead.

Based on the little code I have, I did a little web templating (I
didn't use Rails) and created a simple tool.

It's not "officially" released yet, but why not let people look
at it?

   http://hypermetrics.com/pikmin.html


Cheers,
Hal