Re: [fonc] My visit to VPRI

2008-06-05 Thread Steven H. Rogers
Aaron Gray wrote: I met many of the people listed on http://vpri.org/html/people/team.html I am getting a 404 on that, try :- http://vpri.org/html/people/team.htm Aaron Works for me. Try again? # Steve ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org

Re: [fonc] Avoiding math precedence ambiguities

2007-12-13 Thread Steven H. Rogers
On Thu, December 13, 2007 06:21, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: Hi, On Dec 12, 2007 8:00 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is good to know there are a handful! If we move even higher description, such places should be rarer, I think. Could you and Ian please clarify the official

Re: [fonc] goals

2007-12-08 Thread Steven H. Rogers
Waldemar Kornewald wrote: I unfortunately expected that some clearer direction would already exist. I'd like to thank everyone who helped me understand the current situation. G'day Waldemar: This thread has prompted me to re-read Ian's 'widespread unreasonable behavior' paper. I think

Re: [fonc] tutorial

2007-11-28 Thread Steven H. Rogers
On Wed, November 28, 2007 06:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ZEN meaning Zero Engine Noise? That might work ;), but this definition from the Jargon File is more what I had in mind: zen vt. To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment. Originally applied to

Re: [fonc] productivity

2007-11-27 Thread Steven H. Rogers
On Tue, November 27, 2007 10:50, Waldemar Kornewald wrote: In the meantime: given that the object system was created to eliminate C(++), and the message syntax was created to keep me sane, and I can never remember the traditional (C or similar) precedence rules without a huge poster on my

Re: [fonc] goal clarifications

2007-11-25 Thread Steven H. Rogers
Waldemar Kornewald wrote: On Nov 25, 2007 6:50 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you actually read the NSF proposal and its secondary literature? I read everything that didn't smell like implementation, but I think I didn't really understand it. I had the impression