From b.gohla@gmx.de Mon Mar 11 12:15:30 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: b.gohla@gmx.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 11 Mar 2002 20:15:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 6120 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2002 20:08:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m10.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Mar 2002 20:08:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.gmx.net) (213.165.64.20) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Mar 2002 20:08:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 18661 invoked by uid 0); 11 Mar 2002 20:08:56 -0000 Received: from b7b34.pppool.de (HELO linux) (213.7.123.52) by mail.gmx.net (mp002-rz3) with SMTP; 11 Mar 2002 20:08:56 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Programming Languages for Lojban Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:08:42 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <02031120025600.01405@linux> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02031121084201.01405@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 20:23, Robert J. Chassell wrote: [...] > Also, it is a quite different task from that of asking questions such > as: > > My name is Bob, and my father was named Joseph, and his father was > named Olin; what is the name of one of my grandfather's > grandchildren? > > And that is different from the task of > > Move to line after the word grandchildren; move forward another > line. Open up space. Insert text saying `Moreover, that..' Go > to beginning of line; replace word that is there with the word > `and' .... i think we will as a matter of practicality segregate different task domain= s=20 with different pragmatic contexts early in the processing chain. for exampl= e=20 *making a telephone call *taking notes *arranging system components concerning the last item, i imagine the user will simply give a factual=20 description of the arrangement, and tell the interpreter in advance what th= e=20 intention of the following statements is. > It will be interesting to see what kind of `style' each of these > different tasks imposes on Lojban. > > Also, as a practical matter, I hope that the various > Lojban-as-programming-language developers will cooperate enough that a > person speaking or typing grammatical Lojban can do all the different > tasks on the same machine without having to know or think about > `hidden' factors, such as whether evaluation is strict or lazy. i suspect a good deal of artificial intelligence (whatever that is) will be= =20 necessary to this really useful. - --=20 One Unix to rule them all,=20 One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all,=20 And in the zone bind them. 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 iD8DBQE8jQ7PbBQ8OYNPSXYRApD0AKCNvt0UWxiC9P8un52YcHwun/2m0QCgxO6P jw+8D2RATBYyccN0Jt4K3ZM=3D =3DNjbO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----