[lojban] Re: Lojban interpreter

[mirhagk <mirhagk@gmail.com>]

I do very much appreciate your help, and I actually have heard of, and
read part of the Dragon book before.

I know how to parse sort of, and I just don't know how to parse lojban
specifically. For instance how is la parsed specifically.

On Jun 24, 12:40 pm, ".alyn.post." <alyn.p...@lodockikumazvati.org>
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> You might really enjoy reading the "Dragon Book," formally called
> "Principles of Compiler Design."  It is the classic textbook on
> compiler design.
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> In the last several years, it has unfortunately become a little
> dated, but understanding the material there is necessary for reading
> any of the recently published papers on the subject, and I'm not
> aware of a book that is a candidate to replace this one.  There
> way well be, I haven't surveyed the field.
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> If formal coverage of the subject is not to your taste, there exist
> now a variety of short books and articles on compiler design, many
> more than used to be available.  I'm sure you'll be able to find
> something helpful that discussed the topic in a way you find useful.
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> Please take my e-mails in the spirit of providing guideposts, rather
> that dictums.  I hope in my suggestions that you will have an easier
> time accomplishing your goals, but my suggestions may not be the
> journey you want to take.  If your "Lojban parsing is terrible" fix
> it when it bugs you, not when it bugs the armchair generals.
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> For C#, you have some really nice parsing options, the most popular
> being IronMeta.  It may provide most of the skeleton you need, and
> you can focus on the Lojbanic pieces of your problem.  That project
> is also well documented, in that you might be able to go from no
> parsing experience to getting stuff working and learn as you go.
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> .i a'o do selpu'a lo nu finti lo do vi samtci
> .i mu'o mi'e .alyn.
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> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 09:16:15AM -0700, mirhagk wrote:
> > K I know that I'm parsing it terribly, that's the thing I want to
> > change. And basically I want to create a program where you can talk to
> > a computer and it will execute those commands, but in plain english
> > (rather plain lojban). With english it's entirely impossible because
> > of the millions of ambiguities but lojban clears most of those up, and
> > serves as the perfect language for this task.
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> > And if your asking why, I'll give you a 3 part answer:
> > 1. To prove to people how powerful lojban can be in conversing and
> > interfacing with a computer
> > 2. To further my understanding of interpreters/compilers
> > 3. To develop the absolute simplest programming language.
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> > So what help I would love from you guys is on how to properly parse
> > the language, because I know I'm doing it wrong, I don't mean to, I
> > just don't know the right way. And yes this project will be open
> > source, and I will convert it to C++ eventually, but C# is a much
> > simpler language for the task right now.
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