Re: APL & Lojban

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On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Irene Gates wrote:

> la .iVAN. cusku di'e
>
> > I think the
> regularity
> > is a real one: my appreciation of APL and of Lojban share the same source
> --
> > a liking for the unusual plus a fondness of conciseness.
>
> .a'a .a'u .ie  Yes, I'm still here, I saw this thread, and only an acute
> lack of time prevented me from chiming in.  I did give it some thought,
> though, and came to the same conclusion that Ivan did, although pe'i su'a
> Lojban is only really concise when it comes to the attitudinals and things.
>
I concur. If I recall correctly from one of the versions of the refgram,
one of the early motivations for the attitudinals and discursives was to
provide a more lightweight representation of common abstractions.

co'o mi'e djef