- This list has been pretty quiet, lately, so a recent news_piece...: A SNOBOL4 program could probably reverse the ``politically_correct'' silliness described...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 4, 2001 2:54 pm
4259
- This list is still too quiet for me, so here's another text-related item: By mistake: ?Has your text "test_data" gotten into a real database? + It's not a...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 4, 2001 6:41 pm
4260
... [...deleted...] ... Early versions of error messages also sometimes survive longer than they should. On a Univac 1100/44 at a DoE site in the early 1980s...
Ernest G. Allen
ernestgallen@...
Apr 4, 2001 8:45 pm
4261
- As described in this list, we use S4 and templates to "build" VB programs. S4 is used to dynamically concatenate, fill-in, and modify the templates. Mail...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 6, 2001 10:17 pm
4262
- Yesterday's NYT has a story on Dave Winer's views MS-related concerned. A pointer to this article is below. First, some (skippable) text follows, for readers...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 10, 2001 4:52 pm
4263
- Recently, there's been considerable IETF activity in generating new RFCs. For the "early-emergers" amongst us, here are 3 important entries, from the IETF's...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 10, 2001 5:37 pm
4264
- A list-member just sent me this "direct_mail" query. I'm posting reply (and a URL) to the list, since this may be of general interest to S4LS members...: ...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 10, 2001 6:54 pm
4265
This is a MARVELOUS compendium of how not to write programs... or, when viewed as a "bad example", perhaps one of the most marvelous discussions of how to ...
gep2@...
Apr 11, 2001 6:58 pm
4266
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001 gep2@... wrote: ...snipped... ... - Yes, great minds smile alike, as noted in...: B^, ...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 12, 2001 9:31 pm
4267
- As an aside -- and a puzzle, my reply to Gordon's highly enchuckling URL was _supposed_ to be titled...: /\/\ Subject: Re: How To Write Unmaintainable Code...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 12, 2001 9:42 pm
4268
- This may be of note to BernieG and PhillipT. Perhaps to you, too. ;-) This small .gif is a bar_chart of 25,000 English words...: ...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 16, 2001 4:39 pm
4269
- A member of the list sent "direct_mail", asking...: /\/\ What do you think of XUL? \/\/ This is a topic which has repeatedly come up at work. Given that XUL...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 16, 2001 4:57 pm
4270
- Re XML: Several readers -- all wise in the ways of SNOBOL4 -- have asked me about _learning_ XML. S4-generated XML is the goal. fwiw: I have _not_ gone...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 18, 2001 4:44 pm
4271
- I like to use programs -- preferably SNOBOL4 -- to yank websites. Here are 3 websites which are useful _both_ by keying and yanking...: 1. The ORBS database...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 18, 2001 8:41 pm
4272
... ROF,L! Outstanding! (and all too familiar!) pat -- ================================================== voice: (510) 891-9821 or 891-9924 email:...
pmneve@...
Apr 19, 2001 2:35 am
4273
- /* There's a funny "reward", if you can make it to the very end. */ - - For moderate-size files, we use the built-in SORT() function. For files larger than...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 22, 2001 9:46 pm
4274
- Last year, for April 1, I posted about the proposed &ERRTEXT. This generated several responses, including from those who didn't spot the spoof. This year, I...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 23, 2001 12:43 am
4275
- Some months ago, I posted a query about AltaVista's strangeness, where more, _stricter_ "searching_rules" got _more_ hits !=20 Pierpaolo Bernardi provided...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 25, 2001 12:36 am
4276
Apologies for going off topic but this is the only forum I know that contains some US college grads (and sundry Odd Profs et al), and whose opinion I have...
Chris Anderson
slug@...
Apr 25, 2001 8:21 pm
4277
... Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:14:26 +0200 (SAST) From: Chris Anderson <slug@...> To: snobol4@... Subject: Please help on academic (non...
Chris Anderson
slug@...
Apr 25, 2001 8:28 pm
4278
... that contains some US college grads (and sundry Odd Profs et al), and whose opinion I have learnt (over time) to value. My cousin's son is a bright young...
gep2@...
Apr 25, 2001 11:06 pm
4279
Dear SPITBOLers, Has anyone cooked up a handy and robust function to format numerical values as reals with a user-specified precision and with a decimal point...
David J. Birnbaum
djbpitt+snobol@...
Apr 26, 2001 2:13 am
4280
David, there's an external function for SPITBOL-386 that does what you want. You can download it from ftp://ftp.snobol4.com/realcvt.zip Mark...
Mark Emmer
marke@...
Apr 26, 2001 3:03 am
4281
... as reals with a user-specified precision and with a decimal point but no exponent? For a current problem I need to format a set of reals to print with...
gep2@...
Apr 26, 2001 3:07 am
4282
Why not try this: * * PRECISION RETURNS A NUMBER N ROUNDED TO D DECIMAL PLACES * THIS ROUTINE ASSUMES THAT N & D ARE WITHIN RANGES SO THAT * THE...
Ivan Handler
ihandler@...
Apr 26, 2001 3:10 am
4283
OOPS! I forgot the decimal padding. That can be handled by the following function: DEFINE('DECPAD(N,D),I,F,P') :DECPAD_END DECPAD I =...
Ivan Handler
ihandler@...
Apr 26, 2001 3:29 am
4284
Some time back, I needed the ability to sort "arbitrarily" large text files (I actually used this for my GEPBACK/GEPKAT diskette cataloguing and backup ...
gep2@...
Apr 27, 2001 5:33 am
4285
- Offline, several readers have described usingSNOBOL4 to build XML pages. A more have mentioned an interest in doing this, in the near future. /* Required:...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 27, 2001 6:45 pm
4286
- On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 gep2@... wrote: ...snipped... Gordon ... - Yes, "probably not as good as SyncSort!", since they've been the market leader for...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Apr 27, 2001 7:13 pm
4287
It is not so hard to beat SyncSort in some cases, the sort I wrote for Realia COBOL outperformed SyncSort for many datasets....
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