Re: [lojban] lojban application in wearable computing

["Robert J. Chassell" <bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM>]

   .... few Lisp functions have a "subject", while
   basically all Lojban bridi do, so what do you do with the x1 places?

This statement confuses me.  I just glanced at the 153 Emacs Lisp
functions in the Emacs simple.el. library:  it looks to me that all of
them have a subject.  

However, that subject is not stated overtly.  The subject is the
computer and the mode is imperative.  Thus, we have commands such as:

    computer, move point backwards one word 
or
    you, help me compose email in the other window
or
    you, return the value of 2 plus 2

where `you' refers to the computer.

Questions with true or false answers are the same.  
Thus, the definition for the function `byte-compiling-files-p' is 

    (defun byte-compiling-files-p ()
      "Return t if currently byte-compiling files."
      (and (boundp 'byte-compile-current-file)

and that means

    You, computer!  Tell me whether you are currently converting
    source code that a domain-educated human can read to code that is
    less humanly readable, but more efficient for you to run.

What might, on the surface, look like statements of context, such as 

    if it is sunny, you are on the daylight side of the planet and
    there are no clouds
or
    Bob is the son of Joseph

are, from the computer's point of view, imperatives:

     Computer, record in your data base the following conditional:
        if it is sunny, .....
or 
     You, set the son-of relationship such that Bob is the son of
     Joseph.


The advantage of Lojban is that it is more than an imperative
language in disguise. 

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    Robert J. Chassell                  bob@rattlesnake.com
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