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[Bob LeChevalier-Logical Language Group <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 12:41 PM 5/29/99 -0700, you wrote:
>From: 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.

Lojban also has been demonstrated to be more or less isomorphic with
PROLOG, which makes it an obvious choice - you just need to decide what to
do for all the predicates.

Nick Nicholas did a partial interpretation of Lojban using, I believe,
LISP.  It is on the Lojban fileserver, and covered the core portions of the
language.

lojbab
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