... OK, I won't argue with that... ... Including perhaps TOS Klingons, if I read your paragraph below about them correctly? ... When your yardsticks are C++,...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Jun 22, 2000 9:45 pm
2
(My apologies if you receive two copies of this message. I juat want to make sure everybody gets a copy, regardless if they've joined the varaq-dev list yet...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Jun 25, 2000 9:39 pm
3
... Heh... yeah, it can do that to you. ... Agreed. ... I absolutely agree. You'd think any civilization with automated computing machinery would discover and...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Jun 27, 2000 5:56 pm
4
Okay, folks... New versions of the spec and the interpreter on the website. Highlights: Spec: Added a few useful things -- list functions, add1, sub1, and a...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 27, 2000 8:49 pm
5
Well, more often than not geocities is real snippy about what I can upload. I'm supposed to be able to put a Perl file up on the site and go with it, but even...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 28, 2000 12:16 am
6
... First the "bad news." A friend notifies me that this project may not be all that original. He claims to have heard reference to a Klingon programming...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Jun 28, 2000 1:51 am
7
... Yes, I also code in PostScript; I use an HP calculator because those silly broken ones with '=' keys just don't make sense anymore (I remember I lent my...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jun 28, 2000 1:52 am
8
I did a search, and came up with what friend probably saw: http://mackido.com/EasterEggs/PR-Script.html Which, although it's an interesting easter egg, isn't a...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Jun 28, 2000 2:06 am
9
... I didn't see an attachment to this message (did you send one? eGroups may eat it). A simple answer would be to call it a .txt file and just let us...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jun 28, 2000 4:16 am
10
... It's not even relevant. So what if it's been done, WE didn't do it before, and we're doing it our way now. And I don't think anything of quite this scope...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jun 28, 2000 4:21 am
11
... Bah. I've seen more "real" Klingon-oriented hacks all over the place. It's in the Linux Kernel docs, or it was, anyway... Sheez, this list is really...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jun 28, 2000 4:22 am
12
Check the definitions of SIj and muv. One leaves the elements on the stack in the opposite order to what the other needs. I think consistency would be better...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jun 28, 2000 4:28 am
13
... Yeah. In a sense, it's culture-independent. Anyone working with systems at all like ours would come up with it. ... I may someday do some musing on...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jun 28, 2000 4:36 am
14
... How does {wIv} differ from {latlh}? They look identical to me, in the brief description. Oh, the code reads better with {wIv}, but that's just syntactic...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jun 28, 2000 5:00 am
15
That darned moose and squirrel are havink a terrible effect on our^h^hmy upload capabilities. In order to appease Fearless Leader I have had to wait several ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 30, 2000 3:08 pm
16
... The curious thing would be considering what such an individual's idea of honor would be. What would be cause for such a person to fall on his betleH? ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 30, 2000 3:20 pm
17
Off-topic, but I just wanted to note how everything always seems to come back to Yahoo! nowadays... are these guys going to become the Microsoft of free ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 30, 2000 3:22 pm
18
... Exactly. Hey, I didn't know about Chris's page when I started the Turing Tarpit (Bad Languages Page at the time). I'm pretty certain Chris's page is older....
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 30, 2000 3:29 pm
19
... Exactly. Hey, I didn't know about Chris's page when I started the Turing Tarpit (Bad Languages Page at the time). I'm pretty certain Chris's page is older....
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 30, 2000 3:29 pm
20
... Nope. It's pure sucrose. ... Nothing special. ... Okay. teHbe'chugh, perhaps? (A bit clumsy, though...) ... Just taking a liberty or two. It occured to me...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 30, 2000 3:45 pm
21
... I think we're all agreed in the direction the official var'aq interpreter's error messages should take - not overtly helpful or polite - and we only really...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Jul 1, 2000 9:02 pm
22
Hello, everyone. Here I go with my first real comments about the Klingon vocabulary associated with computer science data structures. ... I tend to think that...
Alan Anderson
aranders@...
Jul 1, 2000 11:35 pm
23
... There's no need to presume. Klingon scientists and artists are a known quantity. We've seen that scientists are treated as if they were less important...
Alan Anderson
aranders@...
Jul 1, 2000 11:35 pm
24
... Then I suggest it be tossed. It doesn't really add anything to the language, except a confusing synonym. While I won't go all the way and say that...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jul 3, 2000 2:49 pm
25
... Going with what you say later about the pervasiveness of the warrior effort. ... I've had that thought myself... ... Though I think a Klingon would have...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 5, 2000 11:12 pm
26
... It's sort of tricky. Lists are definitely lists, as in Lisp, and it's fair to think of them as head/tail pairs for operational purposes. I rather like...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 5, 2000 11:21 pm
27
... Short answer: if there are period (and/or comma etc) symbols which seperate sentences (and/or clauses etc), it's easy. On the other hand, if there are no...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Jul 6, 2000 12:46 am
28
... I've been musing off and on about such an agglutinative-like Klingon proglang. I'd been expecting to have hyphens or something between morphemes; it's...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jul 6, 2000 2:00 am
29
... Why would "true" and "false" translate even approximately literally? I received a visit from the idea fairy this morning when thinking about Klingon...
Alan Anderson
aranders@...
Jul 7, 2000 11:09 pm
30
... I really like {HIja'}/{ghobe'} for true/false. After all, they're the answer to the -'a' questions our relational operators ask, as you point out. That...
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