Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread KennyTM~
Robert Fraser wrote: Bill Baxter wrote: Yigal Chripun wrote: PowerShell is GUI based as well. After downloading it and giving it a try, I find this claim somewhat suspect. What makes you say it's GUI based? It has the exact same decorations and goofy menu options as a regular non-GUI Window

Re: Statistics library

2008-10-25 Thread dsimcha
== Quote from BCS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])'s article > Reply to dsimcha, > > == Quote from BCS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])'s article > > > >> Reply to dsimcha, > >> > >>> Since there's really no good comprehensive statistics library for D > >>> (Tango has a little bit, the beginnings of a few are on dsource, bu

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread Bill Baxter
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Robert Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Baxter wrote: >> >> Yigal Chripun wrote: >>> >>> PowerShell is GUI based as well. >> >> After downloading it and giving it a try, I find this claim somewhat >> suspect. What makes you say it's GUI based? It has the e

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread Robert Fraser
Bill Baxter wrote: Yigal Chripun wrote: PowerShell is GUI based as well. After downloading it and giving it a try, I find this claim somewhat suspect. What makes you say it's GUI based? It has the exact same decorations and goofy menu options as a regular non-GUI Windows console. If it were

[OT] Windows PowerShell

2008-10-25 Thread Robert Fraser
Bill Baxter wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Yigal Chripun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bill Baxter wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Benji Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bill Baxter wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Benji Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bill Baxter wr

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread bearophile
Bill Baxter: >was actually more work than it would be to just use D for everything.< Mixing languages isn't nice, I agree. That's why I too use D for several purposes. But if you have to change your code very often (and if your problems are of a certain kind that allow a natural vectorization)

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread Bill Baxter
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:10 AM, bearophile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Baxter: >> On the other end there are the Matlab and NumPy-type solutions. They >> are convenient for tinkering around and displaying some results, but >> these are not good for performance. > > I have seen many scientif

ycurses updated version

2008-10-25 Thread ylixir
I've updated my curses binding. I'm calling it the first beta, but it already implements a binding for every little bit of ncurses, including forms, menus, panels, mouse, etc. link: http://ycurses.googlecode.com/

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Spacen Jasset wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Spacen Jasset wrote: Bill Baxter wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please vote up before the haters take it down, and discuss: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/78rjk/allowing_unic

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread bearophile
Bill Baxter: > On the other end there are the Matlab and NumPy-type solutions. They > are convenient for tinkering around and displaying some results, but > these are not good for performance. I have seen many scientific programs that use numpy, so sometimes it's fast enough. But it forces you t

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread Bill Baxter
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Spacen Jasset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I am not entirely sure that 30 or (x amount) of new operators would be a >>> good thing anyway. How hard is it to say m3 = m1.crossProduct(m2) ? vs m3 = >>> m1 X m2 ? and how often will that happen? It's also going to mak

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread Spacen Jasset
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Spacen Jasset wrote: Bill Baxter wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please vote up before the haters take it down, and discuss: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/78rjk/allowing_unicode_operators_in_d_sim

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Yigal Chripun wrote: Steven Schveighoffer wrote: "Bill Baxter" wrote On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:37 AM, ore-sama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bill Baxter Wrote: (like I haven't been able to figure out how to get the DOS console in Windows to display UTF-8) Console is a legacy technology (you eve

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Spacen Jasset wrote: Bill Baxter wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please vote up before the haters take it down, and discuss: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/78rjk/allowing_unicode_operators_in_d_similarly_to/ (My comment

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
"Bill Baxter" wrote > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Yigal Chripun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Steven Schveighoffer wrote: >>> "Bill Baxter" wrote On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:37 AM, ore-sama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Baxter Wrote: > >> (like I haven't been able to figure

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread Kevin Bealer
Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > Please vote up before the haters take it down, and discuss: > > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/78rjk/allowing_unicode_operators_in_d_similarly_to/ > > > Andrei I think this is a bad idea -- there are a lot of places that don't use Unicode or don't su

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread Bill Baxter
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Yigal Chripun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven Schveighoffer wrote: >> "Bill Baxter" wrote >>> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:37 AM, ore-sama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bill Baxter Wrote: > (like I haven't been able to figure out how to get the > DOS

Re: Statistics library

2008-10-25 Thread Don
dsimcha wrote: == Quote from Don ([EMAIL PROTECTED])'s article Binomial, hypergeometric, normal, Poisson, Kolmogorov CDFs, hypergeometric, Poisson, binomial PDFs. Inverse normal distribution, Most of these are in Tango (not Kolmogorov). Are yours different in some way? They calculate the exa

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread Yigal Chripun
Steven Schveighoffer wrote: > "Bill Baxter" wrote >> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:37 AM, ore-sama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Bill Baxter Wrote: >>> (like I haven't been able to figure out how to get the DOS console in Windows to display UTF-8) >>> Console is a legacy technology (you even

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread Spacen Jasset
Bill Baxter wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please vote up before the haters take it down, and discuss: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/78rjk/allowing_unicode_operators_in_d_similarly_to/ (My comment cross posted here from r

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread ore-sama
Bill Baxter Wrote: > I did that but "type " still prints garbage. > > --bb if application prints garbage, this indicates that it's implemented incorrectly or it's not encodings-aware. Correctly implemented application should transcode text to OCP before printing to console. This is what std.s

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread ore-sama
Bill Baxter Wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:37 AM, ore-sama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bill Baxter Wrote: > > > >> (like I haven't been able to figure out how to get the > >> DOS console in Windows to display UTF-8) > > > > Console is a legacy technology (you even still call it "DOS"), why

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread ore-sama
Bill Baxter Wrote: > import std.stdio; > void main(string[] args) { writefln("Args: %s", args); } > > And passing it some wildcards. It never expands anything. Only thing > it does do is mess with quotes some. Here's an example: > > C:\> args.exe * "C:\Program Files" *.* c:\* > Args: [args,*

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread Benji Smith
Steven Schveighoffer wrote: So piece of garbage it is not. Something you don't understand how to use properly? definitely ;) Definitely! I hope you'll agree that hyperbole is the best thing in the world :) --benji

Re: Adding Unicode operators to D

2008-10-25 Thread Benji Smith
Bill Baxter wrote: "it does seem to work for both windows paths, **and local wildcards**, just not Windows paths with wildcards". (emphasis added) "grep Foo *.txt" works just fine. "grep Foo c:\*.txt" does not. Then that must be something grep is doing extra. Yep, that was what I said. O