From b.gohla@gmx.de Mon Mar 11 11:04:08 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: b.gohla@gmx.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 11 Mar 2002 19:04:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 4080 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2002 19:03:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m12.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Mar 2002 19:03:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.gmx.net) (213.165.64.20) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Mar 2002 19:03:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 21776 invoked by uid 0); 11 Mar 2002 19:03:02 -0000 Received: from b7a17.pppool.de (HELO linux) (213.7.122.23) by mail.gmx.net (mp015-rz3) with SMTP; 11 Mar 2002 19:03:02 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Programming Languages for Lojban Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:02:56 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02031120025600.01405@linux> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: =?utf-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Gohla?= Reply-To: b.gohla@gmx.de X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=36703491 X-Yahoo-Profile: badbirdde -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 11 March 2002 18:05, Jay Kominek wrote: > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Invent Yourself wrote: > > If one were to try to parse Lojban and use it for the internal workings > > of an inference engine, would Lisp or Prolog be more appropriate? > > I would venture to say Prolog (or some other logic programming language). > Lojban is basically Prolog 'instructions', but remains data in Lisp (and > other functional languages). as i recently wrote in another post, i have been looking into using lojban = to=20 instruct wearable computers. my idea is to transform lojban into xml or=20 s-expressions, then canonicalize sentences, finally apply task specific=20 scheme macros or xsl stylesheets to transform sentences into instructions f= or=20 the underlying system. we will probably use stylesheets, since the=20 application already heavily uses xml. - --=20 () ASCII ribbon against html email=20 /\ and Microsoft attachments. pub 1024D/834F4976 2001-01-07 Bj=C3=B6rn Gohla (Wissenschaftler, Weltb=C3= =BCrger)=20 Key fingerprint =3D 9FF4 FEDA CCDF DA0E 14D5 8129 6C14 3C39 834F 4976 sub 1024g/29571FE2 2001-01-07 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8jP9nbBQ8OYNPSXYRAvYZAKCgKPz0LQrHpqu5GvNu/5TLBQ0ypQCeO1vX Oi0rhdSo3RGAApk0dll9Rw8=3D =3D7w3w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----