Re: [lojban] Prolog for Lojbanists (was: lojban application in wearable computing)

[Björn Gohla <b.gohla@gmx.de>]

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On Thursday 14 March 2002 17:15, Invent Yourself wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, John Cowan wrote:
> > Rob Speer scripsit:
> > > I wish I knew something about what Prolog was.
> >
> > Short summary of Prolog for Lojbanists:
> >
> > To which the Prolog system will reply "la fred."  The system sees that
> > "ma patpatfu la fred." matches the rule head "da patpatfu de" and then
> > attempts to match the members of the conjunct against existing facts
> > or rule heads.
>
> This makes it seem that Prolog is an elegant solution for a Lojban
> inference engine. Can the same be said of Lisp?

if you only wanted to make inferences that could be right. on the other hand 
if you wanted to go beyond that you might want to use lisp to implement the 
inference engine and the other desired functionalities.
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