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[lojban] Re: Logflash
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
In a message dated 4/14/2008 04:22:45 AM Central Daylight Time, lojbab via
ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:
But LogFlash is deemed old-fashioned by
Lojbanists.
So I've gathered, but it's still the only program I use for vocabulary
practice. Maybe that explains my lack of profiency in Lojban.
Thanks for the vote of confidence %^)
I think the old-fashioned-ness is it being a DOS program without all the
features of newer interfaces (i.e Windows). So far as I know, no one has
come up with, and proven, a better flash card algorithm than the one JCB came
up.
I tried it early on, and abandoned it. My problem wasn't so much the DOS
aspect (though getting it to run wasn't trivial), but the reliance on
keywords. I knew what a tanru *was*, I even knew the place structure, but I
couldn't remember that the keyword was "phrase compound". I knew what klama
meant, but couldn't remember whether the keyword chose was "come" or "go"
(since what it means is of course both). After a few of those (and a few
where I couldn't remember the place structure to my satisfaction, but *could*
remember the keyword, so it thought I new more than I did), I gave up on it.
Nora and I have occasionally toyed with the idea of rewriting it as an
exercise in learning one of the newer OOP languages. It hasn't worked its
way up the priority list very far because we didn't know anyone cared.
--
Adam Lopresto
http://cec.wustl.edu/~adam/
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