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Re:Lojban by david-given on Saturday May 30, 2015 @06:04AM (#9629639)
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.3...

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Re:Lojban by gerold on Saturday May 30, 2015 @07:30PM (#9632280)
I 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

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Re:Lojban by gleki on Saturday May 30, 2015 @11:32AM (#9630474)
And PEG too https://github.com/Ilmen-vodhr/ilmentufa/
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Re:Lojban by qznc on Saturday May 30, 2015 @01:41PM (#9630959)
So 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?
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Re:Lojban by gleki on Sunday May 31, 2015 @11:50AM (#9634488)
If 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.
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