Re: (no subject)

[William Tanksley <wtanksle@xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx]

On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 09:38:31PM +0000, dex@SYSLINK.MCS.COM wrote:
> From: dex@SYSLINK.MCS.COM

> Have you considered Forth? You can easily redefine anything in
> it. In fact, writing a program is just defining a word. That
> word is then available for use in defining other words; and so
> your dictionary grows. 

I'm a Forth fanatic, actually -- but in order to make a Lojbanic Forth
we'd have to invent a pretty serious dialect of Lojban to handle the
stack. It would be pretty cool, I admit, but I don't have the skill.

I suggested Rebol because it has most of the features of Forth, but it
also has and uses a parser.

Also possible is Pliant; Pliant is open source, which is more suitable to
Lojbanic use, but it's also a more complicated language. I suspect that
Pliant could be made into a complete Lojban executor, but there'd be much
more work to get initial results.

Oh well. Those are both imperative languages. Perhaps we'd have to base
things on a logical language, like Mercury, anyhow.

-- 
-William "Billy" Tanksley
"But you shall not escape my iambics."
-- Gaius Valerius Catullus