From b.gohla@gmx.de Wed Mar 13 01:36:47 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: b.gohla@gmx.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 13 Mar 2002 09:36:47 -0000 Received: (qmail 75320 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2002 09:36:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.171) by m3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Mar 2002 09:36:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.gmx.net) (213.165.64.20) by mta3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2002 09:36:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 28499 invoked by uid 0); 13 Mar 2002 09:36:44 -0000 Received: from b7aa3.pppool.de (HELO linux) (213.7.122.163) by mail.gmx.net (mp010-rz3) with SMTP; 13 Mar 2002 09:36:44 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] lojban application in wearable computing Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:36:38 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <02030723525200.01243@linux> <20020312223652.GU25495@digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20020312223652.GU25495@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02031310363802.01246@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 Tuesday 12 March 2002 23:36, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 11:52:52PM +0100, Bj??rn Gohla wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > today i talked to a computer science student working on his diploma > > thesis at my university. he is concerned with how to make it easy for > > users of wearable computers to compose and configure software modules > > on their devices. we discussed how lojban could help non programmers > > in telling the gadgets what to do. we will perhaps go into details > > tomorrow. > > > > yes, i am rather excited 8) > > Wow, that's very cool, especially as I have been pondering the same > issues myself in my head (I've been interested in wearables for years). > Please let me know if I can help. we need to think up a way to usefully represent lojban parse trees in xml=20 (and thus in scheme). i am wondering about the significance of the sub-rule= s=20 in the formal grammars, do or do they not need to be represented separately= ?=20 perhaps someone more intimately familiar with the formal grammars can give = a=20 suggestion here. before we implement anything it would be useful if jbofi'e could be separat= ed=20 into a frontend and a backend library, so we would in effect be writing a n= ew=20 frontend that produces xml instead of the familiar output, but avoid an=20 outright code fork. i am not too familiar with how to make shared libraries= =20 so that might be something very specific to help with for a start. as tom nicolai, the computer scientist i am working this on this, is at ceb= it=20 the next couple of days, the planned web page giving a more detailed=20 description of our plans will not be forth coming until the end of the mont= h. - --=20 Bill says: "This is where You go today!" 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 iD8DBQE8jx2sbBQ8OYNPSXYRAvg+AJ0Xjf4Wxqsbe1lZrT/rFxiEUEP5FACcCnPO SvfDlXlfyESHWh7CaHqPP04=3D =3DTSJb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----