Re: (no subject)

[William Tanksley <wtanksle@dolphin.openprojects.net>]

On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 09:38:31PM +0000, dex@SYSLINK.MCS.COM wrote:
> From: dex@SYSLINK.MCS.COM

>  Have you considered Forth?  You can easily redefine anything in
>  it.  In fact, writing a program is just defining a word.  That
>  word is then available for use in defining other words; and so
>  your dictionary grows. 

I'm a Forth fanatic, actually -- but in order to make a Lojbanic Forth
we'd have to invent a pretty serious dialect of Lojban to handle the
stack.  It would be pretty cool, I admit, but I don't have the skill.

I suggested Rebol because it has most of the features of Forth, but it
also has and uses a parser.

Also possible is Pliant; Pliant is open source, which is more suitable to
Lojbanic use, but it's also a more complicated language.  I suspect that
Pliant could be made into a complete Lojban executor, but there'd be much
more work to get initial results.

Oh well.  Those are both imperative languages.  Perhaps we'd have to base
things on a logical language, like Mercury, anyhow.

-- 
-William "Billy" Tanksley
"But you shall not escape my iambics."
           -- Gaius Valerius Catullus