From lee@piclab.com Tue Jan 29 14:16:24 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lee@piclab.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 29 Jan 2002 22:16:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 71740 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2002 22:16:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 29 Jan 2002 22:16:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO piclab.com) (216.121.191.70) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 29 Jan 2002 22:16:22 -0000 Received: from localhost (lcrocker@localhost) by piclab.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA14375; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:16:17 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: piclab.com: lcrocker owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 14:16:14 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: lcrocker@piclab.com To: Invent Yourself Cc: 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: Lee Daniel Crocker X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1436760 X-Yahoo-Profile: bowtie95841 > > >I'm not saying that was a bad decision: indeed, that's one of the > > >very purposes for which it was created: to see if it could help > > >discover such features. But cognitive science beat us to the > > >punch, and there is now no serious doubt that such features are > > >present, so Lojban's deviance from them is a problem for getting > > >it accepted as a common-use language. > > So Chomsky 1, S-W 0. Is the game over? Oh, I don't think I'd go that far; but it's certainly a different game from 20 years ago. Those hard-wired systems don't apply to computers, for example. And Lojban might be useful for investigating how to change or overcome that wiring. -- Lee Daniel Crocker "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC