loglan was mentioned in robert a. heinlein's "the moon is a harsh mistress", and i don't think loglan profited much from the reference. i know that when i first read the book, i assumed it was a fictitious language that heinlein made up himself. it was only after i became aware of loglan on my own that i found references to the story and reread the book.
While reading a chapter in Number of the Beast, I came across a reference to Fortran and Loglan (one of the characters is a programer). Naturally, I think "I know fortran is a proglang, but was Loglan ever used as one?", having only the knowledge that Loglan is a constructed language. So, I jump on google and search.As a result of this googling, I found both Loglan and Lojban. After an initial stint with Loglan, I determined that a language with no community is ass, and move to Lojban. Soon after, I join Lojban IRC and have been hanging around ever since. In fact, Lojban IRC is probably the only reason I've stuck with it so long. If the Esperanto IRC channels had been as full of people with the same interests as me, I probably would have stuck with that too.
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