- There's always something new to discover in S4 ! Although deeply hidden, we accidently located a previously undocumented feature in the ERRTYPE() function....
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 1, 1999 11:39 pm
1445
- There's always something new to discover in S4 ! Although deeply hidden, we accidently located a previously undocumented feature in the ERRTYPE() function....
... INPUT(.IN,.IN,INPUTFILE "[-L3000]") :S(OPENOUTPUT) You don't need to do anything special to the output file, it'll write whatever it's given as one line...
Mark Emmer
marke@...
Apr 3, 1999 6:07 pm
1448
- Win9x users -- who make direct API calls -- will find this handy...: Linkname: API Index URL: http://www.gironet.nl/home/gtgkup/vb/api_index.html It's worth...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 5, 1999 11:05 pm
1449
/* Like Cracker Jacks, there's a prize at the very bottom. ;-) */ - - Several of our investments have on-going applications which require searching very large...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 7, 1999 3:20 am
1450
I thought the following quote by Larry Wall, of Perl fame, might interest Snobol4 people. It is found in the Communications of the ACM, April 1999, page 40. ...
lgregg@...
Apr 9, 1999 1:45 am
1451
Actually I find the lack of static typing in SNOBOL4 to be one of its significant weaknesses for any large scale programming....
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Apr 9, 1999 2:00 am
1452
- Your "perhaps" is not nearly as unlikely as you may think...: - On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 lgregg@... wrote: ...snipped... ... - - ... - It's an old...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 9, 1999 5:45 am
1453
note that snobol-3 was strongly typed, there was only one type: string, so of course you did not need any declarations!...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Apr 9, 1999 11:55 am
1454
... - Robert's factual comment got me lookinhg for an online chronology... My resulting speculation is at the end; it's specious & likely erroneous. But first,...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 10, 1999 4:35 am
1455
- As previously noted: We are working on techniquet to permitting search both un-structured and semi-structured DBs, derived from large __XML__ documents. The...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 10, 1999 5:18 am
1456
- The following may be of interest to some of our academic list-members who were present at the Big Bang -- or at least one of the early IPLs. Yes, this...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 11, 1999 1:00 am
1457
- This is _really_ off-topic, although it is (sort of) pattern-related. However, things have been pretty quiet recently. Maybe this will stir things up a...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 13, 1999 2:29 am
1458
- Mindcraft has several _thorough_and_seemingly_unbiased_ thruput analysises, in their "Whitepapers". These are comparisons of WinNT (WinNT on Intel x86 =...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 19, 1999 6:49 pm
1459
Mike Radow <mradow@...> wrote; Mindcraft has several _thorough_and_seemingly_unbiased_ thruput analysises, in their "Whitepapers". There are reports to...
Phil Budne
phil@...
Apr 19, 1999 7:05 pm
1460
According to one analysis I read, the Linux-negative test report compared a heavily optimized, huge, multi-processor NT configuration system against a ...
gep2@...
Apr 19, 1999 7:28 pm
1461
- On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Phil Budne wrote: [Mike] ... [Phil] ... [Lee Cremeans] : Article: 15203 of muc.lists.freebsd.hackers ... - [Mike] Dunno enough to know...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 19, 1999 8:01 pm
1462
Mike, A really "neat" resource - I'm sure I'll visit it often. Your hint for 14,18,23,28,34,42 helped! Sequence showed me that a pattern detection program must...
Larry Pfeffer
lpfeffer@...
Apr 19, 1999 8:14 pm
1463
Surely you jest Mike, these tests were sponsored by Microsoft Corporation, and you think they are unbiased ... :-) !...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Apr 19, 1999 11:14 pm
1464
<<And the other key problem there is a consistency of vision. Linux's direction is a fuzzy thing determined mostly on the basis of a stochastic kind of ...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Apr 19, 1999 11:14 pm
1465
- A list-member sent this direct msg & URL to a good article: vvv ..here's another article along the same lines... ^^^ With the URL being...: Linkname: PC...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 19, 1999 11:37 pm
1466
... - Naw: I just missed spotting the Microsoft disclosure...: The retinal pattern-matcher had &FLAWEDSCAN turned on. |-( Please see my later postings. Mike...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 20, 1999 12:35 am
1467
And of course it is well known that the really interesting story about Linux these days is the very well layed plans to improve scalability, using a technology...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Apr 20, 1999 12:40 am
1468
... Yes, we will indeed!! :-) Gordon Peterson http://www.computek.net/public/gep2/ Support the Anti-SPAM Amendment! Join at http://www.cauce.org/ 12/19/98:...
gep2@...
Apr 20, 1999 1:08 am
1469
Hello to all, This is my first post, so please forgive me if I violate any conventions I post seeking help with a small project involving the Concord.sno...
Cottrell3@...
Apr 20, 1999 2:17 am
1470
In a recent post I mentioned that one of the things that would likely hamper Linux in its attempt to unseat NT would be the tendency for divergence and ...
gep2@...
Apr 22, 1999 5:58 am
1471
Hello! I'm trying to convert plus-minus-pipe frames to more graphical fmt (semigraphic - not "/^=!") using s4 (c-snobol on SCO OpenServer). My problem is...
Rafal Sulejman
rms@...
Apr 22, 1999 9:33 am
1472
The concern about lack of standards is actually quite different from fears of divergence. As you know any app that will run in one version of Linux will run in...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Apr 22, 1999 1:21 pm
1473
... I read that article as well and, i think, that anyone who reads it will find that it actually has little to do with the title of story that Gordon...