From wtanksle@xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx Thu May 27 17:57:16 1999
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 17:57:16 -0700
From: William Tanksley <wtanksle@xxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Subject: Lojban and Rebol?

A guy named Sassenrath is presenting a new computer language named Rebol
(www.rebol.org). It's an interesting looking language, but I was
especially facinated by the fact that it's very mutable -- you can easily
replace any and all of the syntactical elements with ones of your own
choosing.

It seems to me -- although I don't know either Rebol or Lojban very well
-- that Rebol might serve well as a test vehicle for a Lojbanic computer
language. Its parser is just a little bit too unsophisticated (we'd want
a full spaces-irrelevant parser for the real thing), and its source isn't
available (but it doesn't cost money).

If an enhanced Rebol turns out to look interesting, perhaps it'll provide
a guide towards implementing a real Lojban computer programming system.

-- 
-William "Billy" Tanksley
"But you shall not escape my iambics."
-- Gaius Valerius Catullus