From rizen@ispwest.com Wed Mar 13 18:41:39 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: rizen@ispwest.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 14 Mar 2002 02:41:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 95225 invoked from network); 14 Mar 2002 02:41:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m8.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 14 Mar 2002 02:41:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ispwestemail.aceweb.net) (216.52.245.18) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Mar 2002 02:41:38 -0000 Received: from there (unverified [66.2.47.25]) by ispwestemail.aceweb.net (Vircom SMTPRS 1.2.221) with SMTP id for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:39:12 -0800 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] lojban application in wearable computing Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:38:07 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: <20020313180412.GJ29405@digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20020313180412.GJ29405@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 Wednesday, March 13 2002 10:04 am, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > 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: > > > > > > 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 But the presence of elidable terminators does strike a resemblance to using brackets for things that are more than one word. (Or parenthesis in the case of scheme.) -- rizen