Re: lojban as a spoken programming language?

[Brook <nellardo@concentric.net>]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Shae Erisson wrote:
> From: Shae Erisson <shapr@uab.edu>
> 
> I've search through the onelist archives a bit, and I haven't found any
> mention of this idea. Has anyone tried to do such a thing? It seems to
> me that lojban would be an excellent candidate for a spoken programming
> language.

It should be there - a few months back we had a fair length discussion about
the concept.

The gist of it was that, sure lojban would be good, but you'd need a semantics
to attach to it. As of right now, there's nothing really close to that.

You'd think Prolog would be an obvious match, and people have done mappings
from a subset of Prolog to a subset of lojban, but many things basic (endemic?)
to Prolog, like the cut, don't really fit well.

Brook

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