From rizen@ispwest.com Tue Mar 12 20:41:44 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: rizen@ispwest.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 13 Mar 2002 04:41:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 98811 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2002 04:41:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Mar 2002 04:41:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ispwestemail.aceweb.net) (216.52.245.18) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2002 04:41:43 -0000 Received: from there (unverified [66.2.47.6]) by ispwestemail.aceweb.net (Vircom SMTPRS 1.2.221) with SMTP id for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:39:17 -0800 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] lojban application in wearable computing Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:38:07 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: <20020313033144.GH25495@digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20020313033144.GH25495@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Ted Reed X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=104181342 X-Yahoo-Profile: xrizen On Tuesday, March 12 2002 07:31 pm, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > 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 I have no experience with lisp or prolog. I'm told that scheme evolved from lisp, so I just tend to lump them together. Sorry. Perhaps not lisp, but scheme tends to be organized around predicate syntax and brackets to define things that are more than one word. -- rizen