> Sorry for the crosspost, but it looks like this topic is approximately > > equivalently active on either lis, and I did not find the "submission > instructions" perhaps because its not yet time for design submits :).. > > On Wednesday 03 December 2003 15:08, Daniel Robbins wrote: > > I haven't looked at twisted, but a good solution suggested by > > nerdboy is to have a design competition once we have the > > requirements finalized. > > So, we are going to do it according to "accepted practices" :). > Seriously, I am glad to see it! And here is my entry ;).
Yeay, neat :) <snip> > I have them nicely wrapped up here: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~george/portage-ng_core-proposal.html > > To reiterate them shortly, Prolog is a really esoteric language and I > am not sure we will be able to find enough people to feel comfortable > about having the very core of portage-ng implemented in it. Also > there might be issues of portability and efficiency.. *Ya WHEEEE... * LAUGHS* Right now, I've read your page.... and and... *ROTFL* is my only commment. > > > However that's not all. I have produced some basic prototyping code to > illustrate what could be expected. The prototype is quite crude, as I > did this during relatively rare breaks from writing an article > (completely unrelated to CS :)), but it should serve the purpose. Did > I say the code shoul be readable? So, even though I do not expect > many people to be familiar with that language I would still suggest > trying to look at the code. > You are in for a one nice surprise ;). > (I am not revealing the name of language in this posting deliberately, > because I want people to read through arguments first). *Nod* I can really understand that.. I haven't touched code like that since the first year of highschool (and thats a bunch of years ago) But then I wrote some small pieces, and read more, so I feel reasonably confident reading it. > > The code is available here: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~george/proto_portage-0.7.5.tar.bz2 > but you will probably want to read the text before that. > *Laughs* I can't stop laughing.. I quite Like this idea, but it seems so utterly absurd. Come one, come all. Show me a crude implementation in Fortran! -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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