Re: [9fans] yes, comcast really *does* suck

2008-11-08 Thread LiteStar numnums
Actually, there is a decent amount of noise over switching back to UUCP or the like to avoid the types of restrictions governments corporations are attempting to put on the 'net. Can't wait. :| On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you have to love comcast.

Re: [9fans] Do we have a catalog of 9P servers?

2008-11-08 Thread LiteStar numnums
Well they took Cyclone made Vault C, so they might as well go along with Inferno/Plan9 too. Interestingly enough, Singularity is written in Sing#, yet another MS-specific language. ugh. I think F# is the only thing to have recently escaped MSR (well, besides LINQ, although they killed Comega).

Re: [9fans] Very Off-Topic: Anybody here reads Sci-Fi? :)

2008-12-03 Thread LiteStar numnums
Electric Sheep by John Scalzi is a very humorous play on Dick's wonderful Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Anathem is good, but Snow Crash Diamond Age equally as good, have faster pacing. The Hostile Takeover Trilogy, everything written by William Gibson, The Electric Church, Asimov, Clarke,

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-18 Thread LiteStar numnums
Or have a native Limbo compiler; I've been itching for that for some time, but I've much else on my hands. One day when free... On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:28 AM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: I seem to remember Mjl, the author if the inferno ircfs, wrote an ircfs for Plan 9

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-18 Thread LiteStar numnums
Uh, considering that ircfs is for Inferno (via Limbo), having a Limbo compiler to native Plan9 would be a potential solution, assuming the run time could be kept the same. On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Charles Forsyth fors...@terzarima.netwrote: Or have a native Limbo compiler; I've been

Re: [9fans] Les Misérables

2009-01-18 Thread LiteStar numnums
Inline On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 6:52 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: Well, actually, I was thinking of something along the lines of Lisaac: dynamic modules are statically compiled ala object files, the run time handles issues between Plan9 Inferno. Sys-load the like would

Re: [9fans] new toy - gmap

2009-03-13 Thread LiteStar numnums
The committee is forming a subcommittee to finalize committee membership, which will then create a standard with which you can put things on top of other things. The committee will be made up of thing-putters who each have their own implementation, and we'll leave a good portion of the details

Re: [9fans] new toy - gmap

2009-03-13 Thread LiteStar numnums
The project will still go down as one of bitter in fighting, name calling, ego stroking, chaos wrapped up in a book you need to purchase for $250 USD (plus tax shipping) in order to put things... On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:17 PM, J.R. Mauro jrm8...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 7:11

Re: [9fans] what features would you like in a shell?

2009-04-02 Thread LiteStar numnums
If you have to go to this level, wouldn't it be better to have a language for this? You probably wouldn't want this interactively, prototyping aside. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:41 PM, John Stalker stal...@maths.tcd.ie wrote: so I'm writing to get your opinions. maybe there are thing that people

Re: [9fans] An excerpt from Syllable's description

2009-08-03 Thread LiteStar numnums
They also have REBOL as a scripting language... It's an interesting project, forked from an interesting project (Atheos), but Gospodin Floren is correct: they have exactly the same problems with Syllable as 9fans have with Plan9, namely drivers user expectations. Haiku, ReactOS, Hurd, c c have

Re: [9fans] scheme plan 9

2009-09-02 Thread LiteStar numnums
I use chibi at work; s'not bad considering the size, certainly better than tinyscheme. I currently use a custom dialect for new stuff, but the old is either Chibi or Gauche. On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:13 AM, David Leimbach leim...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Iruata Souza

Re: [9fans] lisp again.

2009-09-07 Thread LiteStar numnums
Clozure might be enough as well; it's C, but I've no idea how many POSIXisms are in the source... On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Fernan Bolando fernanbola...@mailc.netwrote: On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:54 PM, John Florenslawmas...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:47 AM, LiteStar

Re: [9fans] lisp again.

2009-09-07 Thread LiteStar numnums
I was going to use SBCL to cross compile SBCL for Plan9. On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:54 AM, John Floren slawmas...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:47 AM, LiteStar numnumslites...@gmail.com wrote: Well, lisp != common lisp aside, I wouldn't mind a native CL system. I haven't looked

Re: [9fans] New book (Not entirely OT)

2009-09-16 Thread LiteStar numnums
LtU has an overview, for those interested: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3613 On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Andrew Simmons kod...@gmail.com wrote: It's probably a bit hypocriticalist of me to post anything off-topic at this point, but why break the habits of a lifetime? Some people

Re: [9fans] Blocks in C

2009-09-17 Thread LiteStar numnums
Like shuffle db (i.e. no iTunes). On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Andrew Simmons kod...@gmail.com wrote: we'd have been much better off if Apple had instead spent the time and effort writing a decent iTunes And no doubt we'd have been much better off if Apple had instead spent the time

Re: [9fans] Go

2009-11-12 Thread LiteStar numnums
Oberon had POINTER TO, and acted in what you might expect from a TurboPascal. Also, wrt pointers, the original Primos was written in Fortran IV, although it was later moved to the PL/I dialect PL/P. On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM, erik quanstrom quans...@quanstro.netwrote: Because it is

Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

2010-01-07 Thread LiteStar numnums
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Patrick Kelly kameo76...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 5, 2010, at 6:52 AM, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: * Jorden Mauro jrm8...@gmail.com wrote: The coffee pot runs windows and there is a virus that causes Coffee Denial of Service on it. That, of

Re: [9fans] utf-8 on 9fans.net/archive

2010-06-22 Thread LiteStar numnums
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:00 PM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote: confused boxes emdashes turned into mud double conversion? http://9fans.net/archive/2010/06/187 should I read this as poetry or a question? EBo -- The haiku is short a syllable on the first line, unless you

Re: [9fans] xml

2010-06-30 Thread LiteStar numnums
To add to the madness you can write XML files that translate XML files to other files (possibly other XML files) in an XML defined language called XSLT. XSLT is a bit like writing in a functional programming language with the worst syntax possible :-). The reason I say worst syntax possible

Re: [9fans] xml

2010-06-30 Thread LiteStar numnums
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Pietro Gagliardi pietr...@mac.com wrote: On Jun 30, 2010, at 2:43 PM, ron minnich wrote: as long as you don't care about the (observed) 100:1 ratio of XML glop to data in, e.g., the Python XMLRPC stuff, it's great. Yep, I observed that ratio when Xen made the

Re: [9fans] lsub down?

2020-08-21 Thread LiteStar numnums
I have that starred, but that's perfect, thank you Rodrigo! On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 7:31 AM Rodrigo G. López wrote: > github.com/fjballest/clive > > that might be of help while lsub.org is down. > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 1:09 PM LiteStar numnums wrote: > >> Is lsub dow

[9fans] lsub down?

2020-08-21 Thread LiteStar numnums
Is lsub down or permanently gone? I was looking for some of the CLive papers to show a friend, and the site has sorta disappeared from the internet. -- And in the "Only Prolog programmers will find this funny" department: Q: How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: