From bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM Wed Mar 13 05:31:50 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: bob@rattlesnake.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 13 Mar 2002 13:31:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 56845 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2002 13:31:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m6.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Mar 2002 13:31:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (140.186.114.245) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2002 13:31:49 -0000 Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:32:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-Id: Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:32:28 +0000 (UTC) To: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com, bob@rattlesnake.com In-reply-to: <20020313033144.GH25495@digitalkingdom.org> (message from Robin Lee Powell on Tue, 12 Mar 2002 19:31:44 -0800) Subject: Re: [lojban] lojban application in wearable computing References: <20020313033144.GH25495@digitalkingdom.org> From: "Robert J. Chassell" Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810561 What resemblance do you see between lisp and lojban, exactly? At a first glance, I see a much stronger resemblance to Prolog. I think it is primarily a matter of perception. I do not think of Prolog as a language for programming hardware. On the other hand, I think of Lisp as the language used to program the Lisp Machine, as well being a language for integrated desktops, including this email composing editor, for inference engines, and more. Many people think of Lojban as a `logical language'. After all, that was its origin. But Lojban is more than that: it is a general purpose language. As a programming language, please plan to use Lojban to give orders to your mechanical vacuum cleaner. Please expect it to serve both as the content language and as the editing language for composing email. Please hope that programmers will use Lojban to write a windowing system that appeals both to sighted people and to the blind. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com