Link broken.
Julian
http://www.getcontented.com.au/ - You Need GetContented - Make Websites, Not
War!
On 29 Oct 2014, at 5:55 pm, Kurt Stephens k...@kurtstephens.com wrote:
Something I threw together. :)
http://devdriven.com/2014/10/piumarta-and-warths-open-objects-in-scheme/
-- KAS
Hehe that's interesting. I'd never associated LTU with modern languages. I'm
not sure why. Possibly because of the archaic UX and UI. It's incredibly
difficult to parse.
J
http://www.getcontented.com.au/ - You Need GetContented - Get Your Website
Happy. :)
On 28 Sep 2014, at 12:37 am, Miles
On 19 Sep 2014, at 7:11 am, Loup Vaillant-David l...@loup-vaillant.fr wrote:
Hi,
After spending months banging my head over Earley Parsing, I have
decided to write a tutorial. Ian once said Earley parsing is simple
and easy to implement. I agree with simple, but not with easy.
The
On 18 Jan 2014, at 7:25 pm, Attila Lendvai attila.lend...@gmail.com wrote:
1 extend the level of my understanding of it
2 use this process to shape the project to be easier to approach for
newcomers. then publish results with the hopes of integrating it
into the official repo
On 27 Nov 2013, at 1:59 pm, Faré fah...@gmail.com wrote:
If you're interested, there's experimentation and design to do, and
probably a paper to publish.
Forgive me if I'm barking up the wrong tree, but wouldn't it be solved by not
using text for source code?
I'm curious, does Frank and its precursors (sub-cursors?) include sound, or
only visual languages?
Julian
On 15 Nov 2013, at 5:13 pm, David Girle davidgi...@gmail.com wrote:
Figure 1 of TR-2013-002, KScript and KSWorld ... would appear to indicate
the headless piece of Frank might be
http://www.urbit.org/2013/08/22/Chapter-0-intro.html
Interesting?
Julian
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No.
The problem isn't that it's hard to express the abstract, the problem is it's
hard to express the level of abstraction one is referencing simply without
confusion.
Julian
On 03/06/2013, at 5:48 AM, shawnmorel shawnmo...@me.com wrote:
It's pretty difficult to visually express a class of
He does run into some obvious issues expressing linguistic concepts visually,
though, doesn't he? About 44:00 in, you can see that he has to explain that
fish is just an example used to express a behaviour on *any* object.
It's pretty difficult to visually express a class of objects (or any
On 07/04/2013, at 1:48 PM, Tristan Slominski tristan.slomin...@gmail.com
wrote:
a lot of people seem to have the opinion the language a person communicates
in locks them into a certain way of thinking.
There is an entire book on the subject, Metaphors We Live By, which
profoundly
Something on the recent discussion titled Natural Language Wins got me
thinking: a lot of people seem to have the opinion the language a person
communicates in locks them into a certain way of thinking.
I'm interested in this with respect to programming languages. I've encountered
numerous
On 05/04/2013, at 7:19 AM, Kirk Fraser overcomer@gmail.com wrote:
The main source of invention is not math wins as described on
http://www.vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm since the world would be speaking
math if it were really the source of inspiring more inventions that improve
the
, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.net wrote:
On 05/04/2013, at 7:19 AM, Kirk Fraser overcomer@gmail.com wrote:
The main source of invention is not math wins as described on
http://www.vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm since the world would be speaking
math if it were
of Nobel Prize awards are by Jews,
hence in Hebrew. But until the world converts to their superior culture,
inventions are best communicated to the world in English since automatic
machine translation is frequently imperfect.
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.net
Borglisp, hey?
Sounds like Ometa to me.
Julian
On 10/02/2013, at 6:27 AM, Kjell Godo squeakl...@gmail.com wrote:
What will this book be called? I would like to get one when it comes out.
Why do you always start with C? Why not start with a higher language
like Smalltalk? You could
I think you've entirely missed what science and mathematics *are*.
Deep inquiry into any subject has to involve the divine as you call it here.
Go watch some Richard Feynmann videos if you think scientists such as Alan Kay
don't subscribe to deeply held beliefs of the mysterious.
You can see
sarcasm But don't you understand? Falun Dafa is the new answer-for-it-all!
/sarcasm
When will people simply address their fears? We *are* going to die.
Julian
On 30/12/2012, at 11:08 AM, John Carlson yottz...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, I use it too much. What I was trying to say was that
Thank you, captain obvious.
Man is a three-centered (three-brained if you will) being. Focussing on only
one of the brains is by definition imbalanced.
Bring back the renaissance man.
Julian
On 23/12/2012, at 4:28 AM, John Pratt jpra...@gmail.com wrote:
I want to tell everyone on this list
I think you've missed the point.
The point is... you need to use your body and your emotions as well as your
mind. Our society is overly focussed on the mind.
Julian
On 23/12/2012, at 1:52 PM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/22/2012 5:52 PM, Julian Leviston wrote:
Thank you, captain
I'm a bit confused - general architecture of what, exactly? Sorry if this is
obvious. The organisation? The artefact that VPRI will eventually produce? or
FoNC itself?
What is a view here? It appears to be inverted for your use. Surely REASON
comes before PROCESS, doesn't it? (That is, rather
, it is not helping with the learning
process.
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Loup Vaillant l...@loup-vaillant.fr wrote:
David Barbour a écrit :
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon
p...@informatimago.com mailto:p...@informatimago.com wrote:
Julian Leviston jul
How does one donate?
Julian
On 09/11/2012, at 12:10 PM, Kim Rose kim.r...@vpri.org wrote:
Dear Jeff,
Good question; honestly support = donations -- but could be you know someone,
or some organization, etc, etc. that could be a viable donor but may not be
aware of Viewpoints and our
people. Anyway, maybe that's
what I will try to do during my vacation this year :)
Cheers,
Jarek
2012/5/8 Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.net
Isn't this simply a description of your thought clearing process?
You think in English... not Ruby.
I'd actually hazard a guess and say
I disagree. We do our best. This is always the case.
The problem with language is ... there is no problem. The problem is with
people and their lack of awareness.
I agree that our best currently sucks, though.
Words aren't the things they refer to - they're just pointers. The only way to
But I wasn't asking you. :P
:)
On 08/05/2012, at 4:28 PM, David Barbour wrote:
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.net wrote:
What's your point?
I like my PLs to be point free, as much as possible. ;)
Regards,
Dave
--
bringing s-words to a pen
Naming poses no problem so long as you define things a bit. :P
Humans parsing documents without proper definitions are like coders trying to
read programming languages that have no comments
(pretty much all the source code I ever read unfortunately)
J
On 08/05/2012, at 4:36 PM, David Barbour
Sorry it wasn't obvious what I was saying there...
They're important because when they're tiny, it's very easy to learn them...
Julian
On 08/05/2012, at 8:45 PM, Julian Leviston wrote:
This is why tiny languages (Alan calls them POLs, I believe:
problem-oriented-languages) are so important
Isn't this simply a description of your thought clearing process?
You think in English... not Ruby.
I'd actually hazard a guess and say that really, you think in a semi-verbal
semi-phyiscal pattern language, and not very well formed one, either. This is
the case for most people. This is why
said above regarding pseudocode:
http://www.literateprogramming.com/
Cheers,
Jarosław Rzeszótko
2012/5/8 David Goehrig d...@nexttolast.com
On May 8, 2012, at 2:56 AM, Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.net wrote:
Humans parsing documents without proper definitions are like coders
of the time are favoured by few. I think we need good
theoretical approaches to problems like this before we can make any progress
in how the actual real tools work like.
Cheers,
Jarosław Rzeszótko
2012/4/24 Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.net
Thought this is worth a look as a next step
Thought this is worth a look as a next step after Brett Victor's work
(http://vimeo.com/36579366) on UI for programmers...
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table
We're still not quite there yet IMHO, but that's getting towards the general
direction... tie that in with a
Hi Ian Alan,
Further to your suggestion that I write a LISP interpreter, I'm about 90% of
the way done. That is, I've built the following so far:
- using Ruby
- a Lexer into Ruby array structures for lists (Ruby Array array of arrays
(etc.) at this point in the process), Symbol, String,
I started on this yesterday when I received your email Ian, and I just wanted
to say thank you (and Alan, too) very much for responding.
I'm still interested in what your thoughts on Kernel are (and Arc, too,
actually) sometime if you have a couple of moments to pen them...
Julian
On
On 14/03/2012, at 2:11 AM, David Barbour wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Josh Grams j...@qualdan.com wrote:
On 2012-03-13 02:13PM, Julian Leviston wrote:
What is text? Do you store your text in ASCII, EBCDIC, SHIFT-JIS or
UTF-8? If it's UTF-8, how do you use an ASCII editor
On 13/03/2012, at 1:21 PM, BGB wrote:
although theoretically possible, I wouldn't really trust not having the
ability to use conventional text editors whenever need-be (or mandate use of
a particular editor).
for most things I am using text-based formats, including for things like
Is this one of the aims?
Julian
On 01/03/2012, at 11:42 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
The biggest challenge for FONC will not be to achieve good technical
results, as it is stuffed with people who have a history of doing
great work, and its results to date are already exciting, but to get
those
to convince too many
people who have so much history of the merits of tearing down the existing
systems.
Just a thought.
Julian
On 02/03/2012, at 2:04 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
On 1 March 2012 15:02, Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.net wrote:
Is this one of the aims?
It doesn't seem to be, which
Right you are. Centralised search seems a bit silly to me.
Take object orientedism and apply it to search and you get a thing where each
node searches itself when asked... apply this to a local-focussed topology (ie
spider web serch out) and utilise intelligent caching (so search the localised
Structural optimisation is not compression. Lurk more.
Julian
On 28/02/2012, at 3:38 PM, BGB wrote:
granted, I remain a little skeptical.
I think there is a bit of a difference though between, say, a log table, and
a typical piece of software.
a log table is, essentially, almost pure
What does any of what you just said have to do with the original question about
COLA?
Julian
On 26/02/2012, at 9:25 PM, BGB wrote:
On 2/25/2012 7:48 PM, Julian Leviston wrote:
As I understand it, Frank is an experiment that is an extended version of
DBJr that sits atop lesserphic, which
;)
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.net wrote:
As I understand it, Frank is an experiment that is an extended version of
DBJr that sits atop lesserphic, which sits atop gezira which sits atop nile,
which sits atop maru all of which which utilise ometa
Hi,
Comments line...
On 27/02/2012, at 5:33 PM, BGB wrote:
I don't think it was a prank. It's not really hidden at all. If you pay
attention, all the components of Frank are there... like I said. It's
obviously missing certain things like Nothing, and other optimisations, but
for the
Isn't the cola basically irrelevant now? aren't they using maru instead? (or
rather isn't maru the renamed version of coke?)
Julian
On 26/02/2012, at 2:52 AM, Martin Baldan wrote:
Michael,
Thanks for your reply. I'm looking into it.
Best,
Martin
thing one can download and run
right now. Could you guys please clear it up for me?
Best,
Martin
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.net wrote:
Isn't the cola basically irrelevant now? aren't they using maru instead? (or
rather isn't maru the renamed version
On 13/02/2012, at 6:01 AM, Kurt Stephens wrote:
On 2/12/12 11:15 AM, Steve Wart wrote:
Can the distributed computation model you describe be formalized as a
set of rewrite rules, or is the black box model really about a
protocol for message dispatch? Attempts to build distributed messaging
Hiya,
On 13/02/2012, at 2:47 PM, Kurt Stephens wrote:
Read Ian Piumarta's Open, extensible object models (
http://piumarta.com/software/cola/objmodel2.pdf ).
At a certain level, send(), lookup() and apply() have bootstrap
implementations to break the infinite regress. TORT was directly
/wiki/OpenMusic
http://www2.siba.fi/pwgl/pwglsynth.html
https://github.com/digego/extempore
On Jan 22, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Julian Leviston wrote:
On 23/01/2012, at 4:17 PM, BGB wrote:
as opposed to either manually placing samples on a timeline (like in
Audacity or similar), or the stream
On 23/01/2012, at 12:34 PM, BGB wrote:
I was more giving it as an example of basically wanting to do one thing while
being obligated (due to prior work) to do something very different.
Yeah, sorry for diverging :) I actually realised that.
say, if a musician (or scientist/programmer/...)
On 23/01/2012, at 2:30 PM, BGB wrote:
little if anything in that area that generally makes me think dubstep
though...
(taken loosely enough, most gangsta-rap could be called dubstep if one
turns the sub-woofer loud enough, but this is rather missing the point...).
Listen to this song.
On 23/01/2012, at 4:17 PM, BGB wrote:
as opposed to either manually placing samples on a timeline (like in Audacity
or similar), or the stream of note-on/note-off pulses and delays used by
MIDI, an alternate idea comes up:
one has a number of delayed relative events, which are in-turn
I guess this depends what you mean by awe-inspiring.
David this sentence somewhat disturbs me, though. I grew up in Tasmania - a
little island at the bottom of Australia... with some of the most picturesque
(and as you say here awe-inspiring) countryside in Australia. I can tell you
for sure
No, I find it IS awe-inspiring all of the time.
I may not necessarily be full of awe or actually be inspired at any particular
one time... however, this doesn't change the fact that certain things or people
themselves are awe-inspiring all of the time to me. In other words, if I'm in a
bad
, Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.net wrote:
No, I find it IS awe-inspiring all of the time.
I may not necessarily be full of awe or actually be inspired at any
particular one time... however, this doesn't change the fact that certain
things or people themselves are awe-inspiring all
I like minecraft's take on this.
Julian
On 17/01/2012, at 2:31 PM, BGB wrote:
On 1/16/2012 6:47 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
Top post. Heightmapping can go a really long way. Probably not news though:)
I am still not certain, since a lot of this has a lot more to do with my own
The original topic was about getting the computer to create 3d worlds. That was
what I was referring to when I said I like minecraft's taken on it. They use a
seed to generate the world.
Julian
On 17/01/2012, at 3:26 PM, BGB wrote:
On 1/16/2012 8:36 PM, Julian Leviston wrote:
I like
, try to say something specific
and relevant to those who might have skimmed it. Which parts interested you?
If you're referring to Sean's comment for recording the outreach events,
please consider moving it to another topic.
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Julian Leviston jul
Clicking the link
http://www.squeaksource.com/LoLs.html
Yields this:
Internal Server Error
Error: This block accepts 0 arguments, but was called with 1.
Comanche/6.2 (unix) Server at localhost Port
On 18/10/2011, at 7:15 AM, Douglass, Jamie wrote:
Thought you would be interested in
Amusing, they seem to be saying that the platform is the problem. ;-) Now where
have we heard that before? :-) God, Alan's only been saying it for the last ten
years or something...
Julian
On 14/09/2011, at 2:40 AM, Stephen Pair wrote:
My guess would be that Dart is the newer, official name
vpri.og is working for me.
Are you talking about Gezira/Nile?
http://www.vpri.org/vp_wiki/index.php/Gezira
Julian
On 01/09/2011, at 5:40 AM, nchen@mac.com wrote:
Hi
I briefly remember Alan and other members of VPRI doing a presentation of the
text layout engine while they were here
understanding and not just a surface level attention.
J
On 24/08/2011, at 3:37 PM, BGB cr88...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/23/2011 9:54 PM, Julian Leviston wrote:
I usually just leave off commenting, but I personally don't think this is
appropriate for this list.
fair enough, mostly just trying
On 21/08/2011, at 12:22 AM, John McKeon wrote:
On Saturday, August 20, 2011, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
(For example)
Try to imagine a system where the parts only receive messages but never
explicitly send them.
This is one example of what I meant when I requested that
On 26/07/2011, at 3:47 PM, Alan Kay wrote:
But the dilemma is: what happens if this is the route and the children and
adults reject it for the much more alluring human universals? Even if almost
none of them lead to a stable, thriving, growth inducing and prosperous
civilization?
These
Hey UTS! That's just up the road from me :)
Haha woo :)
J
On 21/07/2011, at 7:34 PM, Barry Jay wrote:
Hi everyone,
the paper Growing a language in pattern calculus is now available from
http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~cbj/Publications/glpmf.pdf
The material of the paper links to
On 26/07/2011, at 12:03 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
In contrast, as you mentioned, TCP/IP protocol which is backbone of
today's internet having much better design.
But i think this is a general problem of software evolution. No matter
how hard you try, you cannot foresee all kinds of
On 26/07/2011, at 1:33 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
On 25 July 2011 16:16, Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.net wrote:
On 26/07/2011, at 12:03 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
Interestingly that many today's trendy and popular things (which we
know today as web) were invented as a temporary solution
On 26/07/2011, at 1:43 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
(quotes are broken)
On 25 July 2011 16:26, Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.net wrote:
On 26/07/2011, at 12:03 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
In contrast, as you mentioned, TCP/IP protocol which is backbone of
today's internet having much
On 26/07/2011, at 12:20 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
You lost me here. My attitude to Ruby is same as to Perl: lets take
bit from here, bit from there, mix well everything and voila! , we
having new programming language.
It may be good for cooking recipe, but definitely not very good for
On 26/07/2011, at 12:20 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
But for programming its a bit different: you giving to people a tool
which they will use to craft their own products. And depending on how
good/bad this tool are, the end product's quality will vary.
And also, it would be too good to be
On 26/07/2011, at 12:20 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
Say, for example, like making a telephone that is vastly more easy to use
than all other telephones on the planet. Now, for tech geeks, it's not
really *that* much easier to use... For example, when the iPhone came out, I
got one, and the
On 24/06/2011, at 11:42 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
They gave that presentation more than once (I saw it a OOPSLA). Awesome :)
Here's a version from JAOO'08, streams fine in Germany:
http://blog.jaoo.dk/2008/11/21/art-and-code-obscure-or-beautiful-code/
- Bert -
I actually
On 23/06/2011, at 10:08 AM, Steve Wart wrote:
So how can you make simple languages simple to use? Developers have
been rejecting complex GUIs in favour of plain text. If Google and
Apple are right, every program component isn't a file on a disk, but
rather some network accessible resource.
On 23/06/2011, at 12:35 PM, Max OrHai wrote:
People who want a small language should be prepared to be somewhat
idiosyncratic, if they want to express big or complex programs. I mean
'language' here not just in terms of a programming language definition but
rather to mean all constructs
On 20/06/2011, at 4:33 PM, BGB wrote:
interestingly, I don't believe in getting rid of the file-system, per-se, as
technically it works fairly well and is a proven piece of technology.
Interestingly, I disagree entirely. Finding things is a pain for most people
(including myself).
Julian.
On 20/06/2011, at 4:33 PM, BGB wrote:
For example, when web programming on a specific web app, I use a web
browser, a text editor, a database management program, a command line, and a
couple other tools. It'd be nice to be able to fit these tools together
into a pseudo-app and then build
On 20/06/2011, at 8:06 PM, BGB wrote:
hmm... S-Expression database?...
sort of like a hybrid between a database and a persistent store.
or such...
I'd like to know if you think there's a difference between a filesystem and a
database... conceptually...
or such...
Hi... (see below)...
On 21/06/2011, at 3:42 AM, BGB wrote:
On 6/20/2011 3:22 AM, Julian Leviston wrote:
On 20/06/2011, at 8:06 PM, BGB wrote:
hmm... S-Expression database?...
sort of like a hybrid between a database and a persistent store.
or such...
I'd like to know if you think
On 20/06/2011, at 12:20 PM, Steve Dekorte wrote:
From this perspective we could see the history of programming as one of
finding ever more natural mappings between how our minds work and how we can
get machines to do what we want - just as steering wheel and floor pedals map
between our
On 20/06/2011, at 2:33 PM, BGB wrote:
in a sense, the metaphor no longer works, and should likely itself be left to
fall into the recycle-bin of history. worse yet is having to read stuff
written by people who actually take this metaphor seriously.
Given the historical perspective, it was
On 15/06/2011, at 1:14 AM, Tristan Slominski wrote:
Just for completeness, the lenses you describe here remind me of OMeta's
foreign rule invocation:
Yeah, I think there is a fair amount of deep digestion required to fully grok
these ideas, personally. Haha that sounds disturbing. :)
On 15/06/2011, at 9:00 AM, Kevin Driedger wrote:
I wonder if a thousand years ago the readers of the world thought that only
certain people had an aptitude for reading.
=
As a professional coder and father of young children I find Dethe's anecdote
of teaching his children to
On 12/06/2011, at 1:00 PM, BGB wrote:
image-based systems have their own sets of drawbacks though...
dynamic reload could be a good enough compromise IMO, if done well...
I don't follow this train of thought. Everything runs in an image. That's to
say, the source code directly relates to
On 13/06/2011, at 7:50 PM, BGB wrote:
On 6/13/2011 1:33 AM, Julian Leviston wrote:
On 12/06/2011, at 1:00 PM, BGB wrote:
image-based systems have their own sets of drawbacks though...
dynamic reload could be a good enough compromise IMO, if done well...
I don't follow this train
On 14/06/2011, at 1:17 AM, Alan Kay wrote:
It would be great if everyone on this list would think deeply about how to
have an eternal system, and only be amplified by it.
Hi Alan,
You might need to elucidate a little more on this for me to personally
understand you. Not sure how others
On 14/06/2011, at 4:07 AM, Josh Gargus wrote:
On Jun 13, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Julian Leviston wrote:
On 14/06/2011, at 1:17 AM, Alan Kay wrote:
It would be great if everyone on this list would think deeply about how to
have an eternal system, and only be amplified by it.
Hi Alan
I wrote this without reading the very latest
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011001_final_worlds.pdf so if I say anything that is
obviously missing that understanding, please bear with me :) I'll read it
shortly.
Julian.
On 14/06/2011, at 5:26 AM, Julian Leviston wrote:
On 14/06/2011, at 4:07
On 14/06/2011, at 6:02 AM, BGB wrote:
but, what would be the gain?... the major issue with most possible graphical
representations, is that they are far less compact. hence, the common use of
graphical presentations to represent a small amount in information in a
compelling way (say, a
On 14/06/2011, at 7:33 AM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
Kids may not have the linguistic development out of the way that one needs to
do serious programming. Adults who don't already code may find themselves
short on some of the core concepts that conventional programming languages
expect of
On 14/06/2011, at 7:16 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
Consider what it'd be like if we didn't represent code as text... and
represented it maybe as series of ideograms or icons (TileScript nod).
Syntax errors don't really crop up any more, do they? Given a slightly nicer
User Interface than
On 14/06/2011, at 1:50 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
When you're about to type the next tile, you're given options... anything
outside of those options is impossible, so the computer doesn't put it in,
because syntactically it wouldn't make sense.
There's nothing specific to tiles in what
See below...
On 09/06/2011, at 2:59 PM, Josh Gargus wrote:
I really don't understand what this means:
typedef struct object *(*method_t)(struct object *receiver, ...);
method_t is a pointer to a function that returns an object pointer and
takes receiver and additional argument
Thanks
Answering my own question...
On 09/06/2011, at 4:27 PM, Julian Leviston wrote:
See below...
On 09/06/2011, at 2:59 PM, Josh Gargus wrote:
I really don't understand what this means:
typedef struct object *(*method_t)(struct object *receiver, ...);
method_t is a pointer to a function
On 09/06/2011, at 5:56 PM, Josh Gargus wrote:
However, can we do better than that? I guess the answer depends on which
aspect of the status quo we're trying to improve on (searchability, mashups,
etc). For search, there must be plenty of technologies that can improve on
HTML by
On 09/06/2011, at 7:04 PM, BGB wrote:
actually, possibly a relevant question here, would be why Java applets
largely fell on their face, but Flash largely took off (in all its uses from
YouTube to Punch The Monkey...).
My own opinion of this is the same reason that the iPad feels faster
Hi,
I've been attempting to assimilate the corresponding code to Ian Piumerta's
object model at http://piumarta.com/software/cola/objmodel2.pdf
My C knowledge is lacking, because I don't understand some of the basics in it.
I thought maybe some of you might be kind enough to elucidate.
I
Tanks everyone for answering on this so much...
Comment/Question below,
On 09/06/2011, at 4:56 AM, Kevin Jones wrote:
I really don't understand what this means:
typedef struct object *(*method_t)(struct object *receiver, ...);
method_t is a pointer to a function that returns an object
On 04/06/2011, at 6:59 AM, Michael Forster wrote:
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:35 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
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I'm assuming you didn't mean to be insulting. Yes, unstructured
database is a bit of an oxymoron, and I intentionally used the words
in this clever way, which
On 18/05/2011, at 8:06 AM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
Here's something ironic: we've instead focused on ways to *correct* human
error in music. Pitch correction for your vocals, but don't use too much, or
you'll sound like a fax machine (unless that's what you're going for, in
which case you
You should probably have a look at ActiveRecord::Migration which is part of
Rails if you're interested in SQL-based systems, and in fact ActiveRecord in
general is a really wonderful abstraction system - and a very good mix of do
what you *can* in a programming-language based DSL, and what you
I quite like what Apple's Numbers does with spreadsheets... something as simple
as naming sheets and having multiple variable-sized sheets on the one page
(they call them tables) means you can address cells by name and things become
kinda like variables...
That one simple thing makes them so
I have a question about OMeta.
Could it be used in any way to efficiently translate programs between
languages? I've been thinking about this for a number of months now... and it
strikes me that it should be possible...?
Julian.
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