Re: [lojban] Re: other parsable languages

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 02:50:15PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote:
> On 9/30/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> 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?

Not "so difficult as to be intractable" but "generally believed to
be impossible".

http://teddyb.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/lojban/grammar/index.html

Look for "Old Approach" at the bottom for an explication.

-Robin

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