2011/3/7 Rob Dixon <rob.di...@gmx.com>: > On 07/03/2011 18:24, Jay Savage wrote: >> [snip] > It is certainly not a 'solved problem', or the paper that you > (indirectly) refer to would not have been written. What you are doing is > non-trivial, but is described in detail in the paper >
Thanks for the reply. I guess it's good to know I'm not crazy and my seach skills haven't completely failed me. > <http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/papers/history_flow.pdf> > I've read them paper many times. I wouldn't say it describes much in detail, though. In fact, it doesn't describe anything about their technique at all, not even what LCS solution they implement. > I see the purpose of this list to be to help people code an algorithm in > Perl, not to try to establish an algorithm in the first place. That > said, it isn't uncommon for problems posted here to grab the imagination > of the more experienced minds, and you may well have offers of help here. > No argument there. I just wanted to make sure no one was going to say "oh, you could have just used Version::HistoryFoo." > But your job is first to describe the problem accurately, then to > construct an algorithm that would solve it, and finally to code it up in > your chosen programming language. If that language is Perl then this > list should be able to help. > Actually I think "am I recreating the wheel or does this problem have a standard solution?" is a perfectly legitimate question for the list. It's just the inversion of the the standard response, which is "don't recreate the wheel, use Acme::Wheel." The issue here isn't algorithm, it's implementation. Obviously it's Perl; I posted to a Perl list and said I was planning to use Algortihm::Diff::Callback to spin my shiny new wheel. [snip] Thanks for the sanity check. --j -------------------------------------------------- This email and attachment(s): [ x ] blogable; [ ] ask first; [ ] private and confidential daggerquill [at] gmail [dot] com values of β will give rise to dom! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
