| In a message dated 6/15/2001 5:30:58 PM Central Daylight Time,
rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org writes: According to you, yes. Well, I didn't sign up for Samban, so I didn't know that computerism was going to become a requirement and I do try to keep up a bit. As all I have done is ask in varrious ways that the development of Lojban not leave the majority, stuck in MS Windows and the like behind, I don't quite see that I need to know more. It is fairly clear that this majority is often ignored (and derided, alas) by computer developers, including some for Lojban. In the interest of growing Lojban, this seems to me a serious mistake. I am happy to see that some steps have been taken to change that, though there are still things unavailable in Windows that can be had on other platforms. That the converse is also true seems to me less of a problem, since it affects so few people. Aside from that, I stay out of technical issues in computers because I don't know much about them. Would that people who don't know much (anything) about linguistics or logic or... would do the same with issues in those fields. Or would enter in an appropriately tentative way and learn by doing and asking, rather than charging in with "the answer" when, as it turns out they have not even understood the question. There is more than enough stuff to do in Lojban -- and very likely much more important stuff to do in Lojban -- other than arguing theory: developing usage, writing stories, translating appropriate texts, carrying on conversations, teaching,.... The metagame is a frill and largely still a foolish 0one until some of those other tasks have gotten further along than they are. Leave it for people who aren't going to do the other stuff or who are going to take an impractical view of things. |