Re: [lojban] Lojban for lay programmers

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

   Great ! I have exactly the same feeling about lojban as you. ....

   I am happy that, as of the voice synthesis project, with the help of 
   Jack Crosscope, I have now recorded a whole set of good quality diphones 
   (1186 !), ...

This is really important!  If you can, please continue so people can
listen to Lojban inside of Emacspeak; that way, we get a complete, and
efficient auditory desktop as well as visual one.  

(I cannot remember your connection, if any, to Emacspeak.  
Are you working on the Festival Lite project?

    http://www.flite.org/

Flite would enable people to run Emacspeak with entirely free
software, rather than with the gratis software that many now use.)


   Now, concerning developing a programming language,  ... 

        http://www.antlr.org/


    I AM VOLUNTEERING TO WRITE AN ANTLR GRAMMAR FOR LOJBAN*

Wow!  Please do.  A great deal will grow out of this.

   ... I think lojban is indeed much more than a language hobbyist's
   toy. The very motivation for its inception (or that of its direct
   ancestor) indeed was part of a humanist vision and I think we
   should try to continuate this tradition.

Yes, you are right!

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    Robert J. Chassell                  bob@rattlesnake.com
    Rattlesnake Enterprises             http://www.rattlesnake.com