Hi all, I am trying to define syntax for an sql operator I am researching. Since its research I need to formally define it. the operator currently looks like...
... Sorry, I can't make heads and tails from your request. Do you mean something of the sort: op ::= 'FD' '(' args ')' args ::= arg | arg , args arg ::= and so...
I don't know either, this is my question. how do you formally define a syntax. specifically how they define sql syntax. with algol 60 they used BNF and later...
Hi, I work for a large internet company. We're looking to enhance our hold on the web hosting services in the country, and making some changes in the process....
This post is somewhat (?) off-topic, but I hope that some of the list members will find it interesting, or at least amusing. This idea came up during lunch...
... I disagree with the numbers. Pseudocode is good as a design tool. When you design an algorithm, you want to tweak it until the design is right (as tested...
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Feb 9, 2005 11:55 am
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... I guess that this is not such a new idea after all, and people already tried these experiments, with different results. Check out, for example: ...
... [... experiment descriptions have been snipped ...] Another experiment is to have 1000 Jews try to pronounce the Sacred Name ("Hashem hameforash") and see...
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Feb 9, 2005 11:59 am
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... I'm pretty sure the lightning is a Hollywood invention. The bible says in the 3rd commandment, Exodus 20:7 (my translation as I understand it): "Thou shalt...
... Sacred Name ... smitten ... Actaully the way I read all these is not that you shouldn't say the Lords real name but more like Don't dare say that I've sent...
... list members ... [ ... ] ... researcher ... prayer. You have a problem here that you don't know if they contracted something else in the mean time. You...
... mentioned he has ... to get it ... because in ... There is problem with the whole claim (or at least the way its worded). Pseudo code is not language...
<snipped> ... </snipped> Quite wrong... The phenomenon you are referring to is called quantum entanglement, or as Einstein referred to it "spooky action at a ...
I think some of you might enjoy this interview from ACM's Queue magazine. Alan "Kay was one of the founders of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC),...
I finally finished writing the slides for a presentation I prepared about LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl/PHP/Python). You can find them online here: ...
... Hmmm... this seems to be more oriented towards blog comments, rather than wikis. But it seems that Wikipedia uses it. If we enable the rel="nofollow"...
- You had lots of comments about the performance of programming languages. From my experience (and I have 5 years of web development experience in many ...
... How about inserting rel=nofollow only for users who are not logged-in? If the user registration process requires a valid email, you can root out most spam....
... Not entirely correct. If you have a busy web-site, (or a server serving several web-sites) in which requests are not a simple matter of a few database...
Just to comment about the comparison between mysql and oracle. Don't period. Mysql does not support ACID and thus is suited only for the simplest of matters,...
... Right. But at the moment, MediaWiki does not send a confirmation for registration E-mails to users who register using it. (it accepts the registration...
... I think you missed my point. Performance is a big issue; hardware has a big impact on it. Programming languages have very small impact on performance. I've...
Hi Chen! I'll address the rest of your post at a later point. ... I beg to differ, but writing code that compiles and runs on both Linux and Solaris (and other...
Chen Shapira wrote: [snipped] may be related to the thread- http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/12/27/1243207.shtml?tid=72&tid=29 from this it seems that...
Elad Efrat
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Feb 16, 2005 4:38 pm
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Hi I totally disagree with some (all!) of the remarks you made about PHP: ...
Hello Shlomi, In your http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/LAMP/slides/web-browsers/opera.html you said that Opera is not very important. I'd like to point out...
Omer Zak
omerz@...
Feb 17, 2005 7:15 pm
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http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/LAMP/slides/compatibility/non-msie.html lists several reasons why non-MSIE browsers should be supported. One important reason...