On 12 mars 07, at 03:32, Donald Lindsay wrote: > So sorry, Peter, I've forgotten to extend my congratulations to you > for your new child.
And just to give you a glimpse of what you can expect from life: our 2 years old son is today the greatest source of happiness in our life. We are so lucky that we both work at home so that we can be with him most of the time. And it is really enthralling to see such a little life evolve everyday, absorbing new concepts with seemingly so much ease: he understands both my French and my wife's Japanese, and has started to associate adjectives to nouns like in "chiisai densha" and "ooki unchi" :) Jean-Christophe Helary > I offer you this quote: > > "There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than > trying to explain them to an inquisitive child." > ~Frank A. Clark > > Don > > > On 3/10/07, Peter Seibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Keith Irwin wrote: >>> Folks-- >>> >>> Is this list still in existence? >> >> It is. It's been quiet but I've recently been getting me head out >> from >> underwater (new parent) and working on some Lisp stuff again such as >> updating the Lispbox distros and working on the FAQ. >> >>> Anyway, I created a library located at: >>> >>> http://code.google.com/p/cl-strings/ >>> >>> which is an imitation of Java's String and StringTokenizer classes. >>> Does anyone need such an imitation? Is the Java String functions >>> particular great as these things go? >>> >>> Probably not. >>> >>> But the main purpose for me was to force myself to do the sort of >>> things one does for creating a library, such as setting up the >>> project on the web (in this case google code), documenting the code, >>> writing tests, writing a nice Weitzian documentation page and so on >>> and so forth. >>> >>> (Alas, not all the tests are complete, but the functions are so >>> simple.... ) >>> >>> The great thing about picking the string library from Java is that I >>> had a spec and I didn't have a specific app I needed these functions >>> for. Normally, if I'm in the middle of writing an application, I >>> just write the functions I need and don't attempt to generalize >>> because, well, I need to get the application done. >>> >>> I hope others will pick some simple library from another language >>> and >>> write a cl-lib for it. Maybe if we all picked one and then put them >>> all together, we'd get that "standard-lisp-library" we all want, >>> though I guess the projects at common-lisp.net are adding up to that >>> anyway. >> >> Cool. One thing I'm planning to do as I resume working on Lispbox is >> including various libraries in it that I think are useful. So if >> you do >> work like this be sure to let me know and I'll take a look and see >> if I >> think it should be included in the Lispbox toolkit. >> >> Also folks should feel free to nominate other libraries that they >> find >> useful. >> >>> PS. The google code repo stuff is pretty nice. Very clean, nice set >>> of default features, mostly good enough for most thing. >> >> One warning--it turns out that you have to have a "Gmail" account >> to be >> a project owner or member. A non-Gmail Google account is somehow >> different and not sufficient. >> >> -Peter _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
