[lojban] Re: binary Lojban

["Mark E. Shoulson" <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

Ryan Keppel wrote:

> How about you match what I have given to Lojban? Huh? I am thinking that you
> will have no reply to this. Huh? Eh?
>   
Er, how do you know I haven't?  I've been involved in Lojban longer than 
you, since even before your first association with it.  Robin says I am 
"not far behind you," so I guess I'll have to take that as confirmation 
that I have not yet met your goal.  Although in the years I've been 
here, for all my distractions and everything, I think I have contributed 
a whole lot of intellectual energy and resources to The Cause, maybe 
even more than you have.

At any rate, all that is neither here nor there; it doesn't matter the 
tiniest bit even if I had contributed nothing up till now.  It doesn't 
speak to what you were talking about.

To the topic at hand, though: you were asking about a "binary" version 
of Lojban, in the same sense that Python bytecode is a binary version of 
Python.  It doesn't even really matter what the bytecode is, though, 
since I suppose one could write any number of languages not at all like 
Python that still compile to Python bytecode, or to Java bytecode, and 
so on.  I suppose we could use one of those for Lojban's bytecode as 
well, though it would be a very restricted form of the language (since 
most of the gismu of Lojban don't have much meaning in terms of computer 
operations).  A higher-level Lojbanic bytecode for interpretation by and 
as an AI would be nice, but I think we can't do anything meaningful in 
that direction until first we have some decent AI working with and from 
Lojban as it is.

We could try to write a Lojban-to-JVM compiler, I suppose, essentially 
making Lojban a programming language.  Or write a Lojban-oriented VM, 
though I don't really see what such a thing would be.  I think someone 
once wrote a Lojban-to-Prolog compiler or interpreter, which is sort of 
along those lines.

I still somehow doubt any of these solutions are what you are looking 
for, which makes me think I'm not understanding what you want very well.

~mark



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