I didn't see lojban mentioned. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
On Apr 4, 2013 3:19 PM, Kirk Fraser overcomer@gmail.com wrote:
The main source of invention is not math wins as described on
http://www.vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm since the world would be speaking
math if it were
The first math language Fortran was soon displaced in business by more
readable code afforded by Cobol's longer variable names.
Fortran was displaced in business because early Fortran had no structures
and random record-oriented file access, and because of some silly
government requirements for
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:26 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't see lojban mentioned. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
Consider it equal to Esperanto in context of my argument.
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Thus a major improvement for world computing would be careful adherence to
a world wide natural language
That seems to be contrary to how the world works. We can't even agree
whether to read bytes from right to left or left to right (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness).
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Tristan Slominski
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Thus a major improvement for world computing would be careful adherence
to a world wide natural language
That seems to be contrary to how the world works. We can't even agree
whether to read bytes from
Esperanto was intended to be a human understandable language. Lojban is
intended to be a computer and human understandable language...huge
difference.
On Apr 4, 2013 3:39 PM, Kirk Fraser overcomer@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:26 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
I
Actually zero difference in readability by me or anyone else who
understands English but not Lojban or any trivial language.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:47 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Esperanto was intended to be a human understandable language. Lojban is
intended to be a computer
It appears you are successfully working with English as do most people
[**citation needed**] who communicate internationally. Not to say English
best but it is what most people know [**citation needed**] and using it in
programs would make them readable by more people [**no evidence for this
Natural languages include tenses. What computer systems have a wide
variety of tenses?
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On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Gath-Gealaich gath.na.geala...@gmail.comwrote:
The first math language Fortran was soon displaced in business by more
readable code afforded by Cobol's longer variable names.
Fortran was displaced in business because early Fortran had no structures
and random
Liberal dictionaries have definitions that are by default wrong. For
evidence of language decay, read definitions from the 1988
Webster's Collegiate vs. the current Webster's. Pure word and definition
is needed to understand truth. People who love to lie get along without
words meaning things.
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Kirk Fraser overcomer@gmail.comwrote:
Liberal dictionaries have definitions that are by default wrong.
There's no such thing as liberal dictionaries.
For evidence of language decay, read definitions from the 1988
Webster's Collegiate vs. the current
Am 04.04.13 22:53, schrieb John Carlson:
Natural languages include tenses. What computer systems have a wide
variety of tenses?
John McCarthy analyzed this in his description of Elephant 2000 [1]
sentence Algolic programs refer to the past via variables, arrays and
other data structures.
The
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