From bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM Mon Mar 11 12:31:57 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: bob@rattlesnake.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 11 Mar 2002 20:31:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 34402 invoked from network); 11 Mar 2002 19:23:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m6.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 11 Mar 2002 19:23:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (140.186.114.245) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Mar 2002 19:23:20 -0000 Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Message-Id: Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:23:59 +0000 (UTC) To: b.gohla@gmx.de Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com In-reply-to: <02031120025600.01405@linux> (message from =?utf-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Gohla?= on Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:02:56 +0100) Subject: Re: [lojban] Programming Languages for Lojban References: <02031120025600.01405@linux> From: "Robert J. Chassell" Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810561 as i recently wrote in another post, i have been looking into using lojban to instruct wearable computers. my idea is to transform lojban into xml or s-expressions, then .... Yes, this is exiting! 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' .... 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. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com