[lojban] Re: only one lujvo per concept?

[xod <xod@thestonecutters.net>]

Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:38:43AM -0400, xod wrote:
>  
>
> > The breadth of a lujvo is whatever we say it is.
> >
> > How does mucti minji cover algorithms more than skami selplatu, or
> > skami pruce? 
> >    
>
> An algorithm has nothing to do with computers, for one thing.


I don't understand this response.

You complained that " mutmi'i is also used, but I don't like it very
much (too broad; applies to algorithms as well as code)."

And I said "The breadth of a lujvo is whatever we say it is. How does
mucti minji cover algorithms more than skami selplatu, or skami pruce?
An algorithm is a process; that appears as a keyword in platu, pruce,
but not in minji.


> > If you were not a computer geek, why would you think of an application
> > as a "plan/arrangement/plot/[schematic]" or any sort of process?
> >    
>
> Code, and a running program respectively.  mutmi'i is the best I'm aware
> of for "compiled code that's not actually running", but I've almost
> never hand to use that.


What is the basis for supposing it is less applicable for code that IS
running?

Why would you find a lujvo which only refers to running software
somehow more useful than one more closely approximating the English term
"application", which remains itself even when not being run? From the
perspective of a user, software is noun-like. Is it only verb-like to a
computer programmer thinking procedurally.


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