From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Mar 12 19:30:56 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 13 Mar 2002 03:30:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 11015 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2002 03:30:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Mar 2002 03:30:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (216.231.54.78) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2002 03:30:56 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16kzUO-0006GV-00 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:31:44 -0800 Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:31:44 -0800 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] lojban application in wearable computing Message-ID: <20020313033144.GH25495@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i From: Robin Lee Powell X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=66827819 X-Yahoo-Profile: robinleepowell On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:45:12PM -0800, Ted Reed wrote: > On Tuesday, March 12 2002 03:37 pm, Invent Yourself wrote: > > I tend to think that Lojban is useful here as a "native language" > > for such devices, for internal use, testing & debugging and concept > > proofs, since it's so much easier (in theory) to work with Lojban > > than any other language. And once the bugs are worked out, an > > English/Lojban translation layer is created. At least that's what I > > intend for my inference engine. > > > > So far, in seeking a language for that project, I have one vote for > > Lisp, one for Prolog, and one for Rosetta! Looks like I will have to > > do due diligence to break the tie. > > I personally think that lisp/scheme like languages would bear the most > in common with lojban. Perhaps some python-esque attributes as well. Uhhh, what? What resemblance do you see between lisp and lojban, exactly? At a first glance, I see a much stronger resemblance to Prolog. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/