[fonc] What's wrong with storing programs as text?

2013-10-12 Thread Levente Mészáros
Dear list members, Let me talk about this question without introducing myself... I think the short answer is that there's nothing wrong with it per se, but on the other hand I think there's a lot. I think the problem lies in that it's difficult to understand, develop and maintain a complex

Re: [fonc] What's wrong with storing programs as text?

2013-10-12 Thread David Barbour
I agree with much of what you describe about the problem. We should support many different views of the data describing the program. And not just for different people. Even a single person can benefit from many views, e.g. when debugging or addressing different problems. Text seems to be very

Re: [fonc] Compiling COLA on x86_64

2013-10-12 Thread Simon Forman
On 10/10/2013 at 6:22 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote: Or just copy the i386 file to name it's expecting. On Oct 10, 2013 8:18 PM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote: Symlink might help I tried a symlink but that didn't get any further. It asked me to please implement iflush()

Re: [fonc] Compiling COLA on x86_64

2013-10-12 Thread Ian Piumarta
Simon, Sorry for the late intervention. The error is from a missing math library (-lm in the link command) which contains the sin() function. I will set up a 64-bit Ubuntu VirtualBox and fix whatever is broken. If I haven't done this by midweek then please do feel free to remind me. It will