Re: [9fans] Simplified Chinese plan 9

2009-09-14 Thread Paul Donnelly
eris.discor...@gmail.com (Eris Discordia) writes: >> http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/Language/Korean.htm > > Interesting. I used to think Korean, too, uses a syllabary. Turns out > it's expressed alphabetically. Expressing Japanese that way would > create some space for confusion as there are certain s

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Donnelly
eris.discor...@gmail.com (Eris Discordia) writes: > As for this direct question: > >> I must say that the Lisp version is much simpler and clearer to me, while >> the C version is mildly baffling. Does that make me a wizard who can >> hardly read simple C code, or is it just a matter of what you a

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-07 Thread Paul Donnelly
eris.discor...@gmail.com (Eris Discordia) writes: >> Let me be a little pedantic. > > The 9fans know given the haphazard nature of a hobbyist's knowledge I > am extremely bad at this, but then let me give it a try. > >> FYI, it's been Lisp for a while. > > As long as Britannica and Merriam-Webster

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-07 Thread Paul Donnelly
eris.discor...@gmail.com (Eris Discordia) writes: > I whined about LISP on yet another thread. Above says precisely why I > did. LISP is twofold hurtful for me as a naive, below average > hobbyist. For one thing the language constructs do not reflect the > small computer primitives I was taught so

Re: [9fans] audio standards -- too many to choose from

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Donnelly
fors...@terzarima.net (Charles Forsyth) writes: >>Hardware 24...@192khz. > > the human ear can't hear as high as that > still, it ought to please any passing bat! > Hi-fi, hi-fi, ... If you're recording doing it at 24-bit will pay off in the mixing stage.

Re: [9fans] Using proportional fonts in Acme for Programming

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Donnelly
"Aaron W. Hsu" writes: > Secondly, if you do use proportional width fonts, why, and what > troubles did you encounter; what benefits did you encounter? You can't very well engage in weird formatting tricks, but I'm not much a fan of those anyway. IMO, the more attractive letters and generally le

Re: [9fans] Why does Acme only show text?

2009-07-16 Thread Paul Donnelly
eeke...@fastmail.fm (Ethan Grammatikidis) writes: > On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:25:51 GMT > Paul Donnelly wrote: > >> jason.cat...@gmail.com (Jason Catena) writes: >> >> > I've been wondering for years now why Acme (and Wily, which I used >> > first) only

Re: [9fans] Why does Acme only show text?

2009-07-15 Thread Paul Donnelly
jason.cat...@gmail.com (Jason Catena) writes: > I've been wondering for years now why Acme (and Wily, which I used > first) only display text files. > > It seems to me that the content of an Acme window could be anything: a > picture, a postscript or PDF file, a star chart, a web page. Keeping >

Re: [9fans] plan 9 interface color ergonomy

2009-07-13 Thread Paul Donnelly
eeke...@fastmail.fm (Ethan Grammatikidis) writes: > The only pale colours on the South Downs are the haze-blued hills of > the North Downs in the far distance, and the sky when it's > overcast. The middle and foreground are occupied by very strong > greens, except for some fields near harvest time

Re: [9fans] Acme without Flamage

2008-08-22 Thread Paul Donnelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (sqweek) writes: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Paul Donnelly > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The bear is indentation, since to make it work out it's >> necessary to use a fixed-width font (something I'd rather not do) and >> adjus

Re: [9fans] Acme without Flamage

2008-08-21 Thread Paul Donnelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gorka Guardiola) writes: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 7:42 PM, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> The only thing I'd miss in Acme vs emacs then, most likely, for lisp-like >> languages is paren-matching. >> And I'd miss it dearly. >> >> > > Double click on the paren