From bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM Thu Jan 24 04:07:32 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: bob@rattlesnake.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 24 Jan 2002 12:07:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 26301 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2002 12:07:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m6.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 24 Jan 2002 12:07:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (140.186.114.245) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Jan 2002 12:07:31 -0000 Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:07:19 +0000 (UTC) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:07:19 +0000 (UTC) To: candide@urbanium.tv Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-reply-to: <08DAFF32-10A6-11D6-937C-000393074A5A@urbanium.tv> (message from Candide Kemmler on Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:40:35 +0100) Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban for lay programmers References: <08DAFF32-10A6-11D6-937C-000393074A5A@urbanium.tv> From: "Robert J. Chassell" Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810561 Great ! I have exactly the same feeling about lojban as you. .... I am happy that, as of the voice synthesis project, with the help of Jack Crosscope, I have now recorded a whole set of good quality diphones (1186 !), ... This is really important! If you can, please continue so people can listen to Lojban inside of Emacspeak; that way, we get a complete, and efficient auditory desktop as well as visual one. (I cannot remember your connection, if any, to Emacspeak. Are you working on the Festival Lite project? http://www.flite.org/ Flite would enable people to run Emacspeak with entirely free software, rather than with the gratis software that many now use.) Now, concerning developing a programming language, ... http://www.antlr.org/ I AM VOLUNTEERING TO WRITE AN ANTLR GRAMMAR FOR LOJBAN* Wow! Please do. A great deal will grow out of this. ... I think lojban is indeed much more than a language hobbyist's toy. The very motivation for its inception (or that of its direct ancestor) indeed was part of a humanist vision and I think we should try to continuate this tradition. Yes, you are right! -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com