Re: Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-21 Thread Greg McCarroll 

* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> At 01:35 21/04/2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> >* Damian Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > >> "You can't just make up any old shit and expect the computer to 
> > know what
> > >> you mean, retardo!"
> > >
> > > Hey! Stop undermining the sole basis of my entire career!
> > >
> >
> >go to sleep, what time do you call this! ;-)
> 
> Australia!
> 

Even my datetime concepts are not quite that bad Dave ;-) 


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Re: Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-21 Thread Piers Cawley 

Dave Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> At 01:35 21/04/2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> >* Damian Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > >> "You can't just make up any old shit and expect the computer
> > to know what
> 
> > >> you mean, retardo!"
> > >
> > > Hey! Stop undermining the sole basis of my entire career!
> > >
> >
> >go to sleep, what time do you call this! ;-)
> 
> Australia!

What time is it Dave?
Ten to Japan.
What? It was Australia only ten minutes ago.

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Re: Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-20 Thread Dave Cross 

At 01:35 21/04/2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
>* Damian Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >> "You can't just make up any old shit and expect the computer to 
> know what
> >> you mean, retardo!"
> >
> > Hey! Stop undermining the sole basis of my entire career!
> >
>
>go to sleep, what time do you call this! ;-)

Australia!



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Re: Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-20 Thread Greg McCarroll 

* Damian Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> "You can't just make up any old shit and expect the computer to know what
>> you mean, retardo!"
> 
> Hey! Stop undermining the sole basis of my entire career!
> 

go to sleep, what time do you call this! ;-)

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RE: Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-20 Thread Damian Conway 

   > "You can't just make up any old shit and expect the computer to know what
   > you mean, retardo!"

Hey! Stop undermining the sole basis of my entire career!

Damian

RE: Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-20 Thread Mark Fowler 

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote:
> Mark Fowler wrote on the 20th April:
>
> > On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Robin Houston wrote:
> >
> > > You want to take arbitrary languages, and execute them as if they
> > > were Perl. I want to take Perl and execute it as if it were an
> > > arbitrary language :-)
> >
> > Here be dragons.
>
> "You can't just make up any old shit and expect the computer to know what
> you mean, retardo!"
>

It's more like DWRM programming (do what robin means.)

Later.

Mark.

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RE: Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-20 Thread dcross - David Cross 

From: Mark Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 11:37 AM

> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Robin Houston wrote:
> 
> > You want to take arbitrary languages, and execute them as if they
> > were Perl. I want to take Perl and execute it as if it were an
> > arbitrary language :-)
> 
> Here be dragons.

"You can't just make up any old shit and expect the computer to know what
you mean, retardo!"

Or can you?

Dave...

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Re: Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-20 Thread Mark Fowler 

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Robin Houston wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:57:01PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> >
> > Funny. You've come across the same idea I did.
> > http://simon-cozens.org/pg.pdf
>
> Having now read your paper, I think that in some ways it's the
> *opposite* idea; or at least a complementary one.
>
> You want to take arbitrary languages, and execute them as if they
> were Perl. I want to take Perl and execute it as if it were an
> arbitrary language :-)

Here be dragons.

Later.

Mark.

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open and changes it's meaning.)  Oh and
http://www.mail-archive.com/london-pm%40lists.dircon.co.uk/msg03442.html

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RE: Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-20 Thread dcross - David Cross 

From: Robin Houston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 11:04 AM

> On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:57:01PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > 
> > Funny. You've come across the same idea I did.
> > http://simon-cozens.org/pg.pdf
> 
> Having now read your paper, I think that in some ways it's the
> *opposite* idea; or at least a complementary one.
> 
> You want to take arbitrary languages, and execute them as if they
> were Perl. I want to take Perl and execute it as if it were an
> arbitrary language :-)

Sounds like I should read Simon's paper then. That sounds much more like my
Parse::Perl::Approx idea.

Dave...

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Re: Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-20 Thread Robin Houston 

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:57:01PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> 
> Funny. You've come across the same idea I did.
> http://simon-cozens.org/pg.pdf

Having now read your paper, I think that in some ways it's the
*opposite* idea; or at least a complementary one.

You want to take arbitrary languages, and execute them as if they
were Perl. I want to take Perl and execute it as if it were an
arbitrary language :-)

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Re: Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-19 Thread Simon Cozens 

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:50:46PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
> The slides for the talk I gave this evening are online at
> http://London.pm.org/~robin/semantic-talk/0.title.html ff.

Funny. You've come across the same idea I did.
http://simon-cozens.org/pg.pdf

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Mutagenic modules: online slides

2001-04-19 Thread Robin Houston 

The slides for the talk I gave this evening are online at
http://London.pm.org/~robin/semantic-talk/0.title.html ff.

 .robin.