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[lojban] Re: blast from the past



On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 08:41 -0800, John E Clifford wrote:
>Totally off the controversy.  The post-1975
>growth of Loglan brought in at least a dozen
>people who were drawn by the Heinlein.  They by
>and large did not go looking for Loglan because
>of the reference (and they wouldn't have found it
>if they had) but responded to the announcement
>when it came because they remembered the
>Heinlein.  This was a larger group than (or maybe
>just the same size as) the group who were
>following up on the 1960 SA article (in spite of
>the fact that the announcement was primarily in
>SA).  Unlike Esperanto, almost none of the early
>new Loglanists were word-of--mounth.

I know I've mentioned this before, but I came into Lojban specifically
because of a Heinlein book. Although it wasn't TMIAHM. I hadn't read
that yet. I was reading Number of the Beast, and there are references to
Deety programming with Loglan. I was curious if this was a real
programming language. So I hit google. I found both Lojban and Loglan. I
initially dismissed Lojban because it appeared to be a half-assed fork
from people who decided that they didn't like the way Loglan was being
run (full-assed, now I realize). Then I noticed the conspicuous lack of
any Loglan community to speak of. That was the end of that.

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