... One of the "Star Trek" TV series spin-off is "Star Trek: Voyager" about a Federation starship who gets lost in the Delta Quadrant (most of the rest of the...
Clyde Roby
roby@...
Mar 1, 2001 1:22 pm
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Clyde Roby said ... This is off topic, but serious disinformation like this needs to be corrected. :-) Of *course* there is no stable worm hole from Deep Space...
dewar@...
Mar 1, 2001 1:57 pm
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Now I know more about this than I want to. But thanks for satisfying my curiosity. ... From: "Clyde Roby" <roby@...> To: "Multiple recipients of list"...
Dave Feustel
dfeustel@...
Mar 1, 2001 2:57 pm
4222
- ...Ada history ahead... Regarding Clyde's & Robert's replies (on my weak attempt at humor), in confusing Katherine's Voyager with NASA's...: On Thu, 1 Mar...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Mar 2, 2001 6:03 am
4223
Dear experts, thanks to the suggestions you gave me a couple of months ago, I am again using Snobol (still using Icon for some projects, but returned to Snobol...
Guido Milanese
gmilanese@...
Mar 2, 2001 9:09 am
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Gentilissimo signor Milanese, ho, con successo, prodotto il programma C-Mainbol che ha programmato Phil Budne, con e djgpp v.200 e cygnus/cygwin. Mentre il...
Burkhard Meissner
meissner@...
Mar 2, 2001 11:13 am
4225
Howdy! ... again using Snobol (still using Icon for some projects, but returned to Snobol as my basic "everyday tool"). Sounds like a wise arrangement to me....
gep2@...
Mar 2, 2001 8:55 pm
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- MS has _moved_ (and maybe _inflated_) the ball, with .Net and its "__assemblies__". /* Musing "why" are in the PS, so you can easily avoid them. ;-) */ Yes:...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Mar 3, 2001 8:28 pm
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At 12:27 PM -0800 2001-03-03, Mike Radow wrote: [snip] ... Bingo! Embrace and extend. I view it as primarily a last-ditch attempt to co-opt XML, with much of...
Ernest G. Allen
ernestgallen@...
Mar 3, 2001 8:56 pm
4228
Die ven, 02 mar 2001, Burkhard Meissner haec scripsit: [...] ... Grazie molte! La Sua gentile offerta mi interessa sicuramente (= Thanks a lot! I'm really...
Guido Milanese
gmilanese@...
Mar 3, 2001 9:21 pm
4229
... Not knowing anything about the spitbol extensions I find your solution hard to follow. Isn't it awfully complicated for such a simple problem? Here's mine...
James McKelvey
mckelvey@...
Mar 5, 2001 3:18 am
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... to follow. Actually, it's pretty simple... there's only one goto and one label (other than the END) in the whole program. There are three SPITBOL...
gep2@...
Mar 5, 2001 8:01 am
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- On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Ernest G. Allen wrote: ...full... Mike ... Earnest ... - Thanks: Your confirming view is appreciated, if _not_ comforting. :-( /^\ ... Re...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Mar 5, 2001 9:59 pm
4232
- In the March 5th issue of "The_New_Yorker", Jim Holt has an interesting review of Ada's new biography. See pages 88-93, for this review, titled ...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Mar 6, 2001 5:24 am
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OK, I could no longer resist either. Here is my solution in old fashioned SNOBOL4: d = LEN(1); DEFINE('c(x)'); &FULLSCAN = 1; t = TABLE(); i = 32 a j =...
Viktors Berstis
viktors@...
Mar 8, 2001 2:44 am
4234
... Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 16:18:50 +0100 (MET) From: Burkhard Meissner <meissner@...> To: Guido Milanese <gmilanese@...> Subject: Re:...
Burkhard Meissner
meissner@...
Mar 8, 2001 9:51 am
4235
- For a new SNOBOL4 application, the service of ASC() will be heavily used. But SNOBOL4 seems to lack a built-in ASC(). Please see "afaik", below. Something...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Mar 8, 2001 5:53 pm
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Mike, Would the performance of a normal table be fast enough? ASC = TABLE() ASC<'A'> = 65 ASC<'B'> = 66 and so on (or load the table in a funtion with a loop ...
Ernest G. Allen
ernestgallen@...
Mar 8, 2001 7:20 pm
4237
... I've never found a need for it, and ... It's unclear what you mean by "SNOBOL4". Neither CHAR (BASIC CHR$), nor ASC (BASIC ASC) functionality were present...
Phil Budne
phil@...
Mar 8, 2001 8:37 pm
4238
- On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Ernest G. Allen wrote: ...snipped... ... - Earnest: Hi & thanks! Sure: This is essentially what I do now: At start-up, I take 256 1-byte ...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Mar 8, 2001 8:55 pm
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- Phil: Thank and...: On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Phil Budne wrote: ...snipped... Mike ... - ... - It's common in (byte-based) image-processing. And a pain, too... An...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Mar 8, 2001 9:55 pm
4240
- For a new SNOBOL4 application, the service of RANDOM() will be needed. But SNOBOL4 seems to lack a built-in RANDOM(). I looked, again... Something more...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Mar 8, 2001 11:41 pm
4241
... ASC<'A'> = 65 ASC<'B'> = 66 ... enough or not. I'd think that a table would indeed be a good solution, but you'd probably want to specify more hash...
gep2@...
Mar 9, 2001 12:51 am
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... So how do YOU convert (say) a four-byte binary long integer contained in a binary file to a number? I've recently written a program that takes apart and ...
gep2@...
Mar 9, 2001 12:51 am
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Note that using a table for the conversion, and if speed is REALLY crucial, you MIGHT want to consider using MORE than 256 hash buckets (yes, even recognizing ...
gep2@...
Mar 9, 2001 12:51 am
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I'm not sure what you want, Mike. Do you want a function returning the ascii value of just one character, or a whole string at one time? You turned down the...
P.A. Coppen
P.A.Coppen@...
Mar 9, 2001 8:41 am
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In addition to my earlier mail: indirection works, and it is faster than table search (slowest) and pattern match (good runner up). See below. A funny...
P.A. Coppen
P.A.Coppen@...
Mar 9, 2001 11:26 am
4246
... search (slowest) and pattern match (good runner up). See below. Intriguing... I wonder if the result for indirection would be different in a program where...
gep2@...
Mar 9, 2001 4:14 pm
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- Peter-Arno: Hi, _thanks_, and...: First_posting ============= On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, P.A. Coppen wrote: ...snipped... ... - Yes, just like the GWBASIC and...