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by ilaksh 4468 days ago
Heh.. can't speak any ilaksh or ithkuil just picked the name so people would Google it and because it is usually available as a screen name. Seems like ithkuil pretty much owns as far as conlangs and is interesting from a general knowledge representation standpoint but honestly I never really took the time to understand many of the details since even approaching that would take me a solid month or two. Thanks I will check out loper.. but can loper compete with Intel? We need advanced general purpose open source chips that we can use for gaming and everything else.
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There's a surprisingly active community at /r/ithkuil with people doing translations.

The loper os thing is currently two guys playing with fpgas, but the one knows his lisp and knows what he wants and has supposedly written most of the OS code already, so I'm hopeful. I'm not sure if anything other than a networked lisp machine would work for the kind of verifiably-not-backdoored software/hardware that everyone wants. Aside from the obvious smell of a lisp hacker trying to do his own full stack, I'm surprised that it hasn't gotten more attention.

ETA: the reason for /r/ithkuil having high activity lately is because John Quijada himself started commenting http://www.reddit.com/user/zeuhl59
Wow I actually have the username ithkuil on reddit (using runvnc now) Did not actually think to check for a subreddit. I wonder if he would want my username. Would probably have to delete my account first though if you can do that.