Re: [fonc] misc: request opinions...

2008-12-29 Thread Aaron Gray
Hi, for the people here in this group: what are your opinions of .NET? Its too large, too complex for what it does and I dont like its design. what of open-source alternatives, such as Mono and Portable.NET / dotGNU? They cannot keep up with .NET's versions. what of the Java VM? Too

Re: [fonc] Ocean core language

2008-09-16 Thread Aaron Gray
Aaron Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have any of you boys looked at the type systems involved to do this sort of thing ? Would you be so kind as to cite a few references so that I can understand more about these issues? I have some ideas in mind, but it would be very useful to compare

Re: [fonc] Ocean core language

2008-09-11 Thread Aaron Gray
Hi, I'm interested to see if you can achieve the mixture of dynamism and C compatibilty within the same source language. Yes, that's a key goal I'm trying to accomplish. I guess time will tell. Hi, Have any of you boys looked at the type systems involved to do this sort of thing ?

Re: [fonc] Parameterized Word Tagging: Any interest?

2008-07-29 Thread Aaron Gray
If this was implemented in higher-levels of abstraction we could introduce different tagging schemes to support locatives, flonums, etc. This could lead to more language features, reduced memory usage and garbage on smaller hardware and better performance on 64-bit machines that don't need

Re: [fonc] My visit to VPRI

2008-06-05 Thread Aaron Gray
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? The .html is producing a 404, where as the MS8.3 format leftover .htm works. Aaron

Re: [fonc] working on a C grammar

2008-05-01 Thread Aaron Gray
In my experience, parsing C is fairly easy but pre-processing real- world .c and .h files into something you can then parse is a nightmare. Its the C preprocessor macros that often make the semantics undecypherable to a machine process. Aaron ___

[fonc] idc for windows platform

2008-04-27 Thread Aaron Gray
Hi, Just signed onto fonc mailing list and am also in early stages of looking at MS VC porting of idc. Basically your going to have to do a #ifdef for the MS platforms. you need a comma and also a __VA_ARGS__ rather than a ##ARG, something like :- #ifndef _MSC_VER #define _send(MSG, RCV,

Re: [fonc] idc for windows platform

2008-04-27 Thread Aaron Gray
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Krzysztof Kowalczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Krzysztof Kowalczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The other form works for both msvc and gcc (see http://codepad.org/VxF4pBHg for a proof (well, a proof that it compiles with gcc, or at least a version of

Re: [fonc] idc for windows platform

2008-04-27 Thread Aaron Gray
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Michael FIG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Aaron Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: va_start( ap, rcv); _c = (struct __closure *) _libid-bind( msg, _r); ret = (_c-method)( (oop) _c, _r, _r, ap); va_end( ap); This changes the calling