On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Luke Bergen
<lukeabergen@gmail.com> wrote:
And I still don't understand what you stand to gain from changing things to make them suit your tastes. [...] I don't mean to sound mean, but it kind of sounds like someone coming over to my house and drawing mustaches on all the art on my walls because "it's more common for males from this period to have mustaches, it looks more appealing to me, and because I can".
I don't think it's a fair representation, Luke. I see this as a valuable effort to make lojban easier to read. The language is already difficult in itself that I can't understand why there's the need of making it difficult to read.
Yes, with time people will get used to the way Lojban is written but I can't see why there must be an initial barrier on this aspect too.
And let me add another comment. I do agree that Lojban does not *need* many formatting rules since it is formally specified by its grammar but you could use the same argument the C programs.
I would feel really sorry for anyone that had to maintain a big C source code base that makes no use of good formatting rules. There are studies and experiments that shows that typography and formatting have a huge impact on the comprehension of source code and I see lojban playing in the same league of formal languages.
remod