From xod@sixgirls.org Thu Jan 24 12:18:42 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: xod@reva.sixgirls.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 24 Jan 2002 20:18:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 573 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2002 20:18:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m5.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 24 Jan 2002 20:18:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (216.27.131.50) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Jan 2002 20:18:41 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0OKIeP06373 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:18:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:18:38 -0500 (EST) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: lojban as a programming language [was Re: [lojban] Lojban for lay programmers] In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1138703 X-Yahoo-Profile: throwing_back_the_apple On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Robert J. Chassell wrote: > I find it hard to imagine many of my non-computer friends wanting to > learn Scheme, Guile, or Python. > > (It is also hard to imagine them wanting to learn Lojban, but it > seems less hard, since it is a full language and they would have more > motivations to learn it than merely dealing with their computers, > which they hate anyhow.) Sell it to them as a language of artistic expression and poetry. -- The tao that can be tar(1)ed is not the entire Tao. The path that can be specified is not the Full Path.