... Sounds "esoteric ..." :-) which to me translates to "thinking", "intellectuaully challenged", "good", "innovative", basis for "IPO" :-) [if ot has a .COM...
Larry Pfeffer
lpfeffer@...
Dec 1, 1998 9:12 am
831
- On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, Mark Emmer wrote: ...snipped... ... - - On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Robert Dewar wrote: ...full... ... - - 1. Dunno what SHIRLEY has to do with...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Dec 2, 1998 6:11 pm
832
<Mike snipped> ... It may be merely urban legend, but I have heard tell that after extensive testing, by some prestigious organization, to determine what...
Margaret Renais/Gregg...
renais-ney.evanston@...
Dec 3, 1998 2:07 am
833
<<It may be merely urban legend, but I have heard tell that after extensive testing, by some prestigious organization, to determine what practices lead to the...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Dec 3, 1998 2:35 am
834
... Actually, it should have been the spell checker that won... legfend indeed....
Gregg Ney
renais-ney.evanston@...
Dec 3, 1998 3:34 am
835
... Almost anything without a reference on the internet has to be considered urban legend :-) So let me spread some more around ... According to glass (See Ch...
Randy Hyde
rhyde@...
Dec 3, 1998 4:45 pm
836
... They're not hard to do, they are hard to validate :-) In the field of software engineering, it is very easy to prove almost any point you wish to make by...
Randy Hyde
rhyde@...
Dec 3, 1998 4:47 pm
837
- [Mike:] ... On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Randy Hyde wrote: ...snipped... ... - I surely agree, Randy. BTW: There seem to be _2_ different topics active in this...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Dec 4, 1998 7:28 am
838
Mike Radow accepted the principle of using whitespace to make a program more legible and comprehensible, and proposed a slang dialect of S*BOL requiring fewer...
Mark Laster
mlaster@...
Dec 4, 1998 8:58 am
839
... Maybe for the hardliners, a posh version could be designed in which there are three different white spaces, which should all be syntactically...
Peter-Arno Coppen
P.A.Coppen@...
Dec 4, 1998 9:35 am
840
<<1. ?Does the use of white space result in fewer source_code errors? ... THat is not at all the issue for me, the issue for me is whether white space makes...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Dec 4, 1998 12:31 pm
841
... Obviously, this is a good place to make use of the Space, the Shift-Space and (perhaps?) Alt-Space! These neglected variants can now have legitimate uses!...
Battin, Lawrence Gene
lbattin@...
Dec 4, 1998 7:14 pm
842
- First: Thanks to Peter-Arno and Robert for their respective comments! - An interesting difference in viewpoint is noted: Peter-Arno provides an intriguing...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Dec 4, 1998 8:08 pm
843
- An S4 function can clearly return a `name', which can then be reused as the "name of a function" to be invoked. ?Is there some _more_direct_ that an S4...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Dec 4, 1998 9:18 pm
844
<<An interesting difference in viewpoint is noted: Peter-Arno provides an intriguing suggestion, which permits the _author_ to personalize his _writing_ style,...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Dec 4, 1998 9:31 pm
845
- On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Robert Dewar wrote: ...snipped... ... - ?Echoes of the '70s PL/1 era and "ego-less" programming? Similarly, at Wednesday's meeting of the...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Dec 4, 1998 10:24 pm
846
- Regarding...: /\/\ An S4 function can clearly return a `name', which can then be reused as the "name of a function" to be invoked. ?Is there some...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Dec 4, 1998 10:42 pm
847
- On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Peter-Arno Coppen wrote: ...snipped... - ... - The following is 100% frivolous, albeit amusing. I've received yet another direct emailed...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Dec 4, 1998 10:56 pm
848
<<Echoes of the '70s PL/1 era and "ego-less" programming? ... I do not know what PL/1 has to do with it, but ego-less programming is a very important ideal of...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Dec 4, 1998 10:56 pm
849
There is a place in the Algol-68 report where the meaning of a statement depends critically on whether the comma is in the normal font or the italic font,...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Dec 4, 1998 11:02 pm
850
... are ... distinguished: I think it is necessary to add the TAB whitespace as well. This has the advantage of being visually indistinguishable from a series...
Margaret Renais/Gregg...
renais-ney.evanston@...
Dec 5, 1998 1:05 am
851
<<I think it is necessary to add the TAB whitespace as well. This has the advantage of being visually indistinguishable from a series of spaces, the exact...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Dec 5, 1998 1:50 am
852
May I take it that this has nothing to do with programs written in India or Pakistan? ... http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/pcinfo/progdocs/function.htm#currying ...
Steven Kibler
skibler@...
Dec 5, 1998 3:25 am
853
- ... - Without going "out on a limb", I suspect you'd consider this weak design. Mike - - Mike Radow <---> mradow@......
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Dec 5, 1998 4:16 am
854
- On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Steven Kibler wrote: ...full... - ... - Cute & False: Programs using curried functions _can_ certainly be written in India, Pakistan, or...
Mike Radow
mradow@...
Dec 5, 1998 5:52 am
855
<<Without going "out on a limb", I suspect you'd consider this weak design. ... Yes, most certainly :-) In fact it was a sort of standing joke in the A68...
Robert Dewar
dewar@...
Dec 5, 1998 6:24 am
856
... regardless of what the_Manual_ says." ... various and numerous releases of NN, IE, and Lynx browsers know _lots_ about "Code being the `real' reality",...
gep2@...
Dec 6, 1998 5:52 pm
857
... it into a variable. [snip] ... unary operator, albeit with a positional co-requirement. I think it's fairer in cases like this to call a blank a "syntactic...
gep2@...
Dec 6, 1998 5:57 pm
858
... bigger contributor to hard to read programs than is the lack of an explicit concatenation operator. Although I'm no fan of making arbitrarily required...
gep2@...
Dec 7, 1998 12:31 am
859
Gordon, you say some strange things, but the claim that SPITBOL is a well structured language is rather off the wall even for you. I guess it must simply come...
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