Re: Something for the long weekend

2009-08-28 Thread Lindsay Marshall
Well of course the expression 111 Is 100% made up of 1s... L. Sent from my iPhone On 28 Aug 2009, at 19:39, Derek M Jones de...@knosof.co.uk wrote: Frank, What about thinking up symmetric expressions, e.g., (p)++|++(q) or: l-o-l Anybody got some more eye twisters? or

RE: Intuitiveness of programming languages/paradigms

2009-11-30 Thread Lindsay Marshall
The people who don't learn are not motivated and not enthusiastic That is an incredibly complacent attitude, pedagogically. I'm not suprised to hear it, I'm afraid. *sigh* You aren't listening are you? L.

Re: models of creativity in programming

2010-03-23 Thread Lindsay Marshall
On 23 Mar 2010, at 17:31, guzd...@cc.gatech.edu wrote: Also relevant to this discussion is Richard Gabriel’s proposal for a Masters of Fine Arts in Software: http://www.dreamsongs.com/MFASoftware.html I really like that idea a lot and agree with much of what he says. I've been wanting

RE: Average, Best and Worst: Cost and Time to Produce Software Code

2011-05-11 Thread Lindsay Marshall
+ in all seriousness, who cares what naïve people think about anything? Quite often they are controlling the purse strings. (though who has a purse with strings these days? Surely it at least has a zip) L. -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt

Re: Magic features of programming languages

2011-05-22 Thread Lindsay Marshall
PDP-8 had auto-increment locations down in low memory in similar style. I suppose the device addressing through memory on lots of machines counts as magic too, L. Sent from my iPad On 22 May 2011, at 06:39, Thomas Green green...@ntlworld.com wrote: Kevlin Henney wrote: To really

RE: Making empirical data code available

2012-02-17 Thread Lindsay Marshall
I don't know of a public service that attaches DOIs to arbitrary datasets (shame), but I use archive.org for publishing datasets (e.g. http://www.archive.org/details/beatboxset1) - it is a US library-oriented service whose explicit mission is to preserve digital data for a very long time. Well

RE: Making empirical data code available

2012-02-17 Thread Lindsay Marshall
Ooops - half sent message. Let's just say I am saying nothing at the moment. L. -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).

RE: Making empirical data code available

2012-02-17 Thread Lindsay Marshall
- permanently accessible URLs or other references (e.g. DOIs). For this This is certainly the ideal. Let's not fall into the trap of not doing anything until the ideal system is in place. I was just talking to my friendly local DOI guru and this is definitely possible now using datacite and