years worth of bug
fixes to address before reworking the engine.
Paul Looney
-Original Message-
From: J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Sent: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:38:59 -0500
Subject: Re: FORTH and Hypercard
Stephen Barncard wrote
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jacque,
I wonder if Scott would come to the same conclusion today.
On modern computers messages can transverse the entire path in
nanoseconds.
True, though knowing Scott Raney he wouldn't change it even now.
However, the reason I changed my mind about the
use-revolution@lists.runrev.com
Sent: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:35:14 -0500
Subject: Re: FORTH and Hypercard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jacque,
I wonder if Scott would come to the same conclusion today.
On modern computers messages can transverse the entire path in
nanoseconds.
True, though
J. Landman Gay wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jacque,
I wonder if Scott would come to the same conclusion today.
On modern computers messages can transverse the entire path in
nanoseconds.
True, though knowing Scott Raney he wouldn't change it even now.
However, the reason I changed my
Richard-
Monday, October 17, 2005, 2:37:20 PM, you wrote:
Yeah, I got all up in Scott's face over that once, insisting it was
absolutely necessary to support. He asked me for a test case where no
alternative was available to accomplish a given goal, and darnit I never
did come up with one.
Jacque-
Monday, October 17, 2005, 10:35:14 AM, you wrote:
True, though knowing Scott Raney he wouldn't change it even now.
There shouldn't really be much of a speed difference - the way this is
usually handled is you create a hash table with the overloaded
functions. If there's a match in the
Mark Wieder wrote:
Jacque-
Monday, October 17, 2005, 10:35:14 AM, you wrote:
True, though knowing Scott Raney he wouldn't change it even now.
There shouldn't really be much of a speed difference - the way this is
usually handled is you create a hash table with the overloaded
functions. If
In 1980 I worked with Kenny Jones (now at Digital Domain) at a place
called New World Pictures. We worked on a machine called the Elicon,
a camera control robot that was programmed in FORTH, and made movie
special effects for Roger Corman and others.
It was a beautiful piece of work - dc
Stephen-
Sunday, October 16, 2005, 6:47:15 PM, you wrote:
I also liked a feature of Hypercard that was like forth - you could
redefine and intercept a lower level handler using the same name. I
guess it was a design decision to not allow that in Transcript
but why?
Yes, that's the
On Oct 16, 2005, at 6:47 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
I also liked a feature of Hypercard that was like forth - you could
redefine and intercept a lower level handler using the same name. I
guess it was a design decision to not allow that in Transcript
but why?
I believe it's
Stephen Barncard wrote:
I also liked a feature of Hypercard that was like forth - you could
redefine and intercept a lower level handler using the same name. I
guess it was a design decision to not allow that in Transcript but why?
Speed. Raney wouldn't put it in, and now that I'm used
11 matches
Mail list logo
