I seem to have missed any recent mailings so I apologise in advance if this topic has already been talked to death. Has anybody used the MVS Snobol ported to...
Chris Anderson
slug@...
Jun 3, 2001 5:12 pm
4322
The Snobol4 version posted for use by Herculeans is SIL Snobol4 V3.5 (nee BTL Snobol4). See http://jaymoseley.terrashare.com/compilers/installing.htm or the...
Robert Goldberg
goldberg@...
Jun 4, 2001 6:57 pm
4323
- Since deja was absorbed by google, I've been using newsranger, instead. Recently, I've also been experimenting with (web-) yanking newsranger. /* In other...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jun 7, 2001 8:27 pm
4324
- Offlist, a few of us have been discussing how S4 can be used to assist in converting existing VB and VC source for ".NET" use. No surprise: One of the best...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jun 7, 2001 8:59 pm
4325
- I'm still not comfortable with C++, but MS has moved the ball to C#... This is another newish MS group on the C# language...: ...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Jun 7, 2001 9:17 pm
4326
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ... Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable G'day,=20 I have...
Greg White
glwhite@...
Jun 12, 2001 1:21 pm
4327
Howdy! ... Please turn off the option in your E-mail software that causes your E-mail to be sent in bulky HTML-burdened format. You should set the outgoing...
gep2@...
Jun 12, 2001 3:35 pm
4328
Hi, Greg, Now that I am retired, about the only thing I use it (spitbol) for regularly is deriving demographics from a club roster. Occasionally, I write...
Calvin L. R. Barker
clrbarker@...
Jun 12, 2001 8:49 pm
4329
I use it quite frequently for mangling various bits of data in support of various systems programming tasks. I've also used it here for converting the output...
Nick Gloor
njg@...
Jun 12, 2001 9:45 pm
4330
G'day Rafal, Am I arriving in plain txt (mime) now? We both use it for very very simillar things, my working history goes back before the big blue boxes (360...
Greg White
glwhite@...
Jun 13, 2001 1:10 am
4331
Hello Calvin, I have a nifty encryption engine of my own design and writing. I can produce infinitely variable encryption that does not appear to have any...
Greg White
glwhite@...
Jun 13, 2001 1:10 am
4332
Nick, Thanks for the time for you kind reply, I use it for many things including some of your uses. I am interested in writing an engine that can directly...
Greg White
glwhite@...
Jun 13, 2001 1:10 am
4333
... Looks much better, thanks! Gordon Peterson http://personal.terabites.com/ Support the Anti-SPAM Amendment! Join at http://www.cauce.org/ ...
gep2@...
Jun 13, 2001 5:20 am
4334
Dear friends, I use the language regularly for all sorts of day-to-day conversions. The largest project I ever write in SPITBOL was a text retrieval system...
Burkhard Meissner
meissner@...
Jun 13, 2001 6:17 am
4335
Burkhard, could it display script languages and communication protocols? When I hear about something I cant help but think what I could do with it. Thanks for...
Greg White
glwhite@...
Jun 13, 2001 9:58 am
4336
I would like to take a varying length character string (1 - 32k bytes) and generate a unique signature to use as a key into a table. Preferably a unique key....
Nick Gloor
njg@...
Jun 19, 2001 5:06 pm
4337
If you use Icon, hashed table addressing functions are built in to the language. Ed ... -- Edward A. Feustel Research Associate efeustel@......
Edward A. Feustel
efeustel@...
Jun 19, 2001 5:14 pm
4338
<<If you use Icon, hashed table addressing functions are built in to the language. ... as of course they are in SNOBOL4 (and SPITBOL)...
dewar@...
Jun 19, 2001 6:30 pm
4339
... of course, and I use them extensively when i write a = table(101) a<'fred'> = 'wilma' however thats not exactly what I am looking for, I need either a...
Nick Gloor
njg@...
Jun 19, 2001 6:48 pm
4340
... a<'fred'> = 'wilma' ... will return a "signature" or "key" or "index value" which we can use to identify the string ... range in string lengh input and...
gep2@...
Jun 19, 2001 8:34 pm
4341
You might want to try looking at www.snippets.org, a collection of useful code "snippets". Right now, the Browse facility doesn't work, but you can download...
Dennis Newbold
dennisn@...
Jun 19, 2001 8:55 pm
4342
At 11:48 AM -0700 2001-06-19, Nick Gloor wrote: [snip] ... Nick, It sounds like the MD5 algorithm would be a good match. You can read the original paper by...
Ernest G. Allen
ernestgallen@...
Jun 20, 2001 3:36 pm
4343
... Unless my understanding is incomplete, in and of itself, the MD5 algorithm will not suffice for Nick's needs. This is because it produces a 128-bit ...
Dennis Newbold
dennisn@...
Jun 20, 2001 6:40 pm
4344
heaps are not useful for lookups, so I don't understand Dennis mentioning them in the context of searches....
dewar@...
Jun 20, 2001 6:48 pm
4345
... Seems to be!!! :-))) ... Well, no, but I'd expect it does seem to provide a reasonable-looking hash value. That's not ITSELF enough, of course, but it's...
gep2@...
Jun 20, 2001 7:12 pm
4346
... Good point. Just thinking or typing too quickly, I guess. Apologies. Dennis...
Dennis Newbold
dennisn@...
Jun 20, 2001 7:58 pm
4347
... Point well taken. I just jumped to the (in retrospect, untenable) conclusion that this is what Ernest meant or intended, since he didn't go on to discuss...
Dennis Newbold
dennisn@...
Jun 20, 2001 8:13 pm
4348
<<A fairly astonishing statement, actually. :-) That's NOT how one would use such a hash code!! Good grief. ... No, a perfectly reasonable statement, since...
dewar@...
Jun 20, 2001 8:20 pm
4349
... little sense, much too complex. Depends really on how much data you have, and what the characteristics of that data are. As I suggested, it may well make...
gep2@...
Jun 20, 2001 8:56 pm
4350
<<The MD-5 stuff is because the original post said that the data being represented was perhaps as long as 32K bytes. ... reread my post carefully, a btree with...
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