the
term even have any meaning at all?
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:52 PM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Steve Wart st...@wart.ca wrote:
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Gath-Gealaich
In real systems, 90% of code (conservatively) is glue code.
What
The wikipedia definition is circular, but I agree that people know it when
they see it :)
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
Steve
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:52 AM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Steve Wart st...@wart.ca wrote:
It depends what you
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Gath-Gealaich
In real systems, 90% of code (conservatively) is glue code.
What is the origin of this claim?
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:15 PM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:57 AM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.comwrote:
Just to zero in on one idea here
Anyway I digress... have you had a look at this file?:
http://piumarta.com/software/maru/maru-2.1/test-pepsi.l
Just read the whole thing - I found it fairly interesting :) He's build
pepsi on maru there... that's pretty fascinating, right? Built a micro
Simplicity, like productivity, is an engineering metric that can only be
measured in the context of a particular application. Most successful
programming languages aren't mathematically pure but some make it easier
than others to use functional idioms (by which I mean some mechanism to
emulate the
This caught my eye on Hackaday - thought people here might be interested
http://labs.teague.com/?p=1451
Cheers,
Steve
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Is Dash related to Dart?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392791,00.asp
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:22 AM, John Zabroski johnzabro...@gmail.comwrote:
A leaked Google memo from November 2010 [1] is being circulated around the
Internet, outlining Google's supposed technical strategy for Web
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:47 AM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote:
I think any solution will need to accommodate porn, or it simply won't be
accepted. The idea should be, instead, to keep it from infecting everything
else and allow parents to protect their children.
3D design is
I've been thinking about eternal computing not so much in the context
of software, but more from a cultural level.
Software ultimately runs on some underlying physical computing
machine, and physical machines are always changing. If you want a
program to run for a long time, the software needs to
an
implementation of Ruby on top of it, and called it MagLev, and it's now
possible to have persisted, fast, pure object-oriented data store in Ruby
and/or Rails applications... and as we know, there's an implementation of
O/Meta for Ruby... ;-)
Julian.
On 22/06/2011, at 4:58 AM, Steve Wart wrote
Also of interest might be GemStone/S, an ODBMS that is still heavily
used in at least two large Investment Banks (JP Morgan and UBS), as
well as several large shipping companies (OOCL, Coscon, and NYK).
Marketing blurb here
http://seaside.gemstone.com/docs/OOCL_SuccessStory.pdf
Basically it's an
I like it. My son is very keen on Scratch (although he prefers Lua
these days), but we picked up an Arduino kit last month, and I'm
looking forward to playing with that.
His eyes kind of glazed over looking at the C code, as simple as it is
for Arduino. I got the impression he was just happy to
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Dethe Elza de...@livingcode.org wrote:
Glad you like it. How old is your son? Maybe we should organize a Vancouver
Geek Kids, or meet up at
Maker Faire next week. Or there is this: http://www.tedxkidsbc.com/
TEDx kids looks wonderful - thanks for that link.
True. If I'm writing code I probably want to be sitting at a desk to do it.
And I imagine Gauss or Euler sitting at a desk in the middle ages
writing on parchment, not trying to scribble something down on a
notebook while barreling down the streets in their equivalent of a
daily commute.
Still,
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.net wrote:
On 21/12/2010, at 4:51 AM, Steve Wart wrote:
So is there anything interesting from a FONC perspective in mobile
devices? It may be a coincidence that Apple's success with the iPhone
is to a large extent due
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Julian Leviston jul...@leviston.net wrote:
On 21/12/2010, at 12:00 PM, Steve Wart wrote:
I used Objective-C pretty much every day for the past 2 years, but for
the past 6 months I've been coding in Smalltalk (good old
VisualWorks/Envy and GemStone) again
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