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My impression is that Lojban is more of a research language than something people actually speak, but I'd be delighted to be wrong. It's beautifully elegant. D
by david-given 11y ago
My impression is that Lojban is more of a research language than something people actually speak, but I'd be delighted to be wrong. It's beautifully elegant.
Did You Know... Lojban's regular enough that there's a yacc grammar for it? http://www.lojban.org/publications/formal-grammars/grammar.300.txt http://www.lojban.org/publications/formal-grammars/grammar.3...
- gleki 11y agoAnd PEG too https://github.com/Ilmen-vodhr/ilmentufa/ https://github.com/Ilmen-vodhr/ilmentufa/
- qznc 11y agoSo what is the actual class of the language? YACC means LALR(1) and PEG means LL(*), afaik. Can you write a LL(k) or even SLL(k) grammar?
- gleki 11y agoIf you mean particular values of k then modern Lojban isn't compatible with non-infinite lookahead although pragmatically a high value of k may do the trick on real texts. As for SLL I'm no expert, sorry.
- gerold 11y agoI agree that Lojban is a "research language", but that is certainly a good thing! Seen in relation to its size/popularity, quite a large amount of research in linguistics and computer science sprouted from it. I myself have comitted a master's thesis to the language [1] (on p. 29 I attempt to summarize where it was picked up in academia) [1] https://goo.gl/hkr38R https://goo.gl/hkr38R