On Aug 24, 8:00 pm, Hugh Aguilar hughaguila...@yahoo.com wrote:
The C programmers reading this are likely wondering why I'm being
attacked. The reason is that Elizabeth Rather has made it clear to
everybody that this is what she wants: [http://tinyurl.com/2bjwp7q]
Hello to those outside of
On Aug 24, 9:05 pm, Hugh Aguilar hughaguila...@yahoo.com wrote:
What about using what I learned to write programs that work?
Does that count for anything?
It obviously counts, but it's not the only thing that matters. Where
I'm employed, I am currently managing a set of code that works but
the
On Aug 25, 5:01 pm, Joshua Maurice joshuamaur...@gmail.com wrote:
I agree. Sadly, with managers, especially non-technical
managers, it's hard to make this case when the weasel
guy says See! It's working..
Actually, it's not that hard. The key to communicating the true cost
of software
On Aug 20, 6:51 pm, Hugh Aguilar hughaguila...@yahoo.com wrote:
You can see an example of lists in my novice package (in the list.4th
file):http://www.forth.org/novice.html
Also in there is symtab, which is a data structure intended to be used
for symbol tables (dictionaries). Almost nobody
On Aug 17, 2:53 pm, Standish P stnd...@gmail.com wrote:
Another way to pose my question, as occurred to me presently is
to ask if a stack is a good abstraction for programming ?
Certainly, it is the main abstraction in Forth and Postscript
and implementable readily in C,C++ and I assume
On Aug 17, 4:19 pm, Standish P stnd...@gmail.com wrote:
It is true that the other languages such as F/PS also have borrowed
lists from lisp in the name of nested-dictionaries and mathematica
calls them nested-tables as its fundamental data structure.
No.
you are contradicting an
