Re: [lojban] Programming Languages for Lojban

[Björn Gohla <b.gohla@gmx.de>]

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On Monday 11 March 2002 20:23, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
[...]
> Also, it is a quite different task from that of asking questions such
> as:
>
>     My name is Bob, and my father was named Joseph, and his father was
>     named Olin; what is the name of one of my grandfather's
>     grandchildren?
>
> And that is different from the task of
>
>     Move to line after the word grandchildren; move forward another
>     line.  Open up space.  Insert text saying `Moreover, that..'  Go
>     to beginning of line; replace word that is there with the word
>     `and' ....

i think we will as a matter of practicality segregate different task domains 
with different pragmatic contexts early in the processing chain. for example 
	*making a telephone call
	*taking notes
	*arranging system components

concerning the last item, i imagine the user will simply give a factual 
description of the arrangement, and tell the interpreter in advance what the 
intention of the following statements is.

> It will be interesting to see what kind of `style' each of these
> different tasks imposes on Lojban.
>
> Also, as a practical matter, I hope that the various
> Lojban-as-programming-language developers will cooperate enough that a
> person speaking or typing grammatical Lojban can do all the different
> tasks on the same machine without having to know or think about
> `hidden' factors, such as whether evaluation is strict or lazy.

i suspect a good deal of artificial intelligence (whatever that is) will be 
necessary to this really useful.
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