From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Mar 13 10:03:26 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 13 Mar 2002 18:03:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 32825 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2002 18:03:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.167) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 13 Mar 2002 18:03:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (216.231.54.78) by mta1.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Mar 2002 18:03:24 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16lD6i-0004fH-00 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:04:12 -0800 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:04:12 -0800 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] lojban application in wearable computing Message-ID: <20020313180412.GJ29405@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: <20020313033144.GH25495@digitalkingdom.org> 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 08:38:07PM -0800, Ted Reed wrote: > 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. scheme and lisp can be lumped together for purposes of this discussion. > Perhaps not lisp, but scheme tends to be organized around predicate > syntax and brackets to define things that are more than one word. Exactly. lojban doesn't use bracketing to define precedence, in general. It has a series of sentences which are syntactically unrelated. -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/