On 10 Oct, 10:44, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/02/10 20:04, NickKeighleywrote:
In a statically typed language, the of-the-wrong-type is something
which
can, by definition, be caught at compile time.
Any time something is true by definition that is an indication that
On 1 Oct, 11:02, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote:
Seebs usenet-nos...@seebs.net writes:
On 2010-09-30, Ian Collins ian-n...@hotmail.com wrote:
Which is why agile practices such as TDD have an edge. If it compiles
*and* passes all its tests, it must be right.
So
On 1 Oct, 19:33, RG rnospa...@flownet.com wrote:
In article slrniabt2j.1561.usenet-nos...@guild.seebs.net,
Seebs usenet-nos...@seebs.net wrote:
On 2010-10-01, RG rnospa...@flownet.com wrote:
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Those goal posts are sorta red shifted at this point.
[...]
Red shifted?
Moving away
On 27 Sep, 18:46, namekuseijin namekusei...@gmail.com wrote:
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Fact is: almost all user data from the external words comes into
programs as strings. No typesystem or compiler handles this fact all
that graceful...
snobol?
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On 27 Sep, 20:29, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
namekuseijin namekusei...@gmail.com writes:
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Fact is: almost all user data from the external words comes into
programs as strings. No typesystem or compiler handles this fact all
that graceful...
I would even
On 30 Sep, 11:14, TheFlyingDutchman zzbba...@aol.com wrote:
in C I can have a function maximum(int a, int b) that will always
work. Never blow up, and never give an invalid answer.
Dynamic typed languages like Python fail in this case on Never blows
up.
How do you define Never
On 30 Sep, 15:24, TheFlyingDutchman zzbba...@aol.com wrote:
If I had to choose between blow up or invalid answer I would pick
invalid answer.
there are some application domains where neither option would be
viewed as a satisfactory error handling strategy. Fly-by-wire, petro-
On 19 Aug, 16:25, c...@tiac.net (Richard Harter) wrote:
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:39:09 -0700 (PDT), Nick Keighley
nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com wrote:
On 17 Aug, 18:34, Standish P stnd...@gmail.com wrote:
How are these heaps being implemented ? Is there some illustrative
code or a book
On 17 Aug, 18:34, Standish P stnd...@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 16, 11:09 am, Elizabeth D Rather erat...@forth.com wrote:
On 8/15/10 10:33 PM, Standish P wrote:
If Forth is a general processing language based on stack, is it
possible to convert any and all algorithms to stack based ones and
On 17 Aug, 21:37, Elizabeth D Rather erat...@forth.com wrote:
On 8/17/10 10:19 AM, Standish P wrote
On Aug 17, 12:32 pm, John Passanitijohn.passan...@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
this is heavily x-posted I'm answering from comp.lang.c
On 16 Aug, 08:20, Standish P stnd...@gmail.com wrote:
[Q] How far can stack [LIFO] solve do automatic garbage collection and
prevent memory leak ?
I'm having trouble understanding your question (I read your whole post
before replying). I
On 16 Aug, 09:33, Standish P stnd...@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 16, 12:47 am, Nick Keighley nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com
On 16 Aug, 08:20, Standish P stnd...@gmail.com wrote:
this is heavily x-posted I'm answering from comp.lang.c
I also note that another poster has suggested you are a troll
On 18 July, 09:38, Emmy Noether emmynoeth...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 18, 1:09 am, Nick 3-nos...@temporary-address.org.uk wrote:
Emmy Noether emmynoeth...@gmail.com writes:
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In this video, Stall man makes 4 promises to public but stalls on 2nd
of them.
I have no idea of the rights
On 16 July, 09:24, Mark Tarver dr.mtar...@ukonline.co.uk wrote:
On 15 July, 23:21, bolega gnuist...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.html
RMS lecture at KTH (Sweden), 30 October 1986
did you really have to post all of this...
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read more »...
...oh sorry
On 7 July, 17:38, Rivka Miller rivkaumil...@gmail.com wrote:
Although C comes with a regex library,
C does not come with a regexp library
Anyone know what the first initial of L. Peter Deutsch stand for ?
Laurence according to wikipedia (search time 2s)
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On 8 July, 08:08, Nick Keighley nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com
wrote:
On 7 July, 17:38, Rivka Miller rivkaumil...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone know what the first initial of L. Peter Deutsch stand for ?
Laurence according to wikipedia (search time 2s)
oops! He was born Laurence but changed
to pass data to the callback function? Some GUIs give
you a user-data field in the event, does Tkinter?
Or am I reduced to using spit global data? A Singleton is just
Global Data by other means.
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This led to packs of feral Global Variables roaming the
address space.
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On 9 June, 10:35, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno.
42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid wrote:
Nick Keighley a crit :
I'm trapping mouse clicks using
canvas.bind(ButtonRelease-1, mouse_clik_event)
def mouse_clik_event (event) :
stuff
What mouse_clik_event does is modify some data
On 9 June, 13:50, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno.
42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid wrote:
Nick Keighley a écrit :
On 9 June, 10:35, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno.
42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid wrote:
Nick Keighley a crit :
I'm trapping mouse clicks using
canvas.bind
On 3 Oct, 00:33, Xah Lee xah...@gmail.com wrote:
Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator,
context, detail, see bottom of:
• A Lambda Logo Tour
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/lambda_logo.html
I'm amazed he thinks anyone would donate 3 USD
to that site
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