Re: [lojban] Re: other parsable languages

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

On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 05:00:33PM -0300, Jorge Llamb?as wrote:
> On 9/30/05, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I may be missing something, but there you only say that dealing
> with terminators in BNF would require a 20-fold expansion of the
> grammar, which may be difficult but not impossible, not even
> intractable.

Oh, and, for the record: "intractable" is an understatement.  *If*
It's possible, and I'm really not sure, I expect that it would take
*hundreds* of person-hours.  That's why I stopped trying.

-Robin

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