To anyone out there still listening... I recently acquired a copy of Zero by Charles Seife (sp?). Great book, and it got me thinking about alien mathematical...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Dec 5, 2000 1:15 am
136
... I have to apologize too, I was being kind of hard on the language. There's no need for var'aq to be particularly sophisticated. ... My only real...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Dec 5, 2000 6:12 am
137
... Error-checking is probably good -- the question is, does this make var'aq 2 also strongly typed? (Lisp of course being the counterexample to the question) ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Dec 5, 2000 8:30 pm
138
... Not necessarily, but that would be cool. At least, it can just check that the number of parameters given, match the number expected. But I would happily...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Dec 6, 2000 1:14 am
139
Brian Connors <connorbd@...> wrotes" ... As it happens, the Klingon-speaking community recently received official word on Klingon arithmetic. It's...
Alan Anderson
aranders@...
Dec 6, 2000 2:39 am
140
... Well... weeeelllllll... I guess I have to shut up as I'm hardly a true member of the Klingon community. But the metaphor is a bit... strained? But it's...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Dec 7, 2000 1:07 am
141
... The literal English translation of the verb {boq} as "ally with" does give it an odd ring, but I'm pretty sure the arithmetic meaning isn't too heavily...
Alan Anderson
aranders@...
Dec 8, 2000 1:19 am
142
There are many little things I'd like to pitch in to the discussion, but this is my last week of classes this term and final projects are due in the next week....
j proctor
jproctor@...
Dec 8, 2000 2:03 am
143
... Correct me if I'm wrong, but we have one good thing--Klingon verbal representation of math closely mirrors smalltalk. (+ A B) boq <<A>> <<B>> ... Think on...
John Galt
galt@...
Dec 8, 2000 2:31 am
144
... really a computer is going to represent it as 11111011 MULT 00000011 (there's the toggle two's complement bit in there, and I cheated a little by using an...
John Galt
galt@...
Dec 8, 2000 2:43 am
145
... I'm torn, here. On one basis I have to agree with you, the metaphor is a bit strained. But on another basis, that's the sort of borderline-cheesy...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Dec 8, 2000 9:16 am
146
I want to do a little hacking on var'aq and test some ideas (mainly pointy brackets/type checking in functions.) Should I wait for the "Azetbur" release? Here...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Dec 11, 2000 6:33 am
147
... What's there now is what exists of Azetbur. I believe the English interpreter is current, as is the spec, but I never quite got around to doing the...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Dec 11, 2000 8:47 pm
148
... That actually sounds quite reasonable. Sort of an application-level "syntax challenge" imposed upon the program before executing it. I can imagine a...
Alan Anderson
aranders@...
Dec 12, 2000 2:58 am
149
I have been inspired to finally slam out a finished Azetbur release of var'aq 1. It includes Alan's vocabulary contributions and j proctor's predicate ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jan 3, 2001 9:40 pm
150
... Speaking of which... I guess I never got around to this... Truth is, I downloaded the sources, started making small structural changes for cleanliness and...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Jan 4, 2001 12:37 am
151
... Wow. I did the same thing. I wonder if I saved that file. ... Yup. Started down that path. See below. ... That one, too, sorta. I actually imagined a...
j proctor
jproctor@...
Jan 4, 2001 2:59 am
152
... That's probably an indication we were both on a sensible track, parallel evolution and all that. ... That was my first thought. My second thought was that...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Jan 4, 2001 6:00 am
153
... Great minds think alike. And us. ... I either didn't understand what you said, or you didn't understand what I said. I was thinking more along the lines...
j proctor
jproctor@...
Jan 4, 2001 3:10 pm
154
... I'm sticking with "implementation", myself :-) ... Hmmm... That would also, I think, have the advantage of making per-function updates easier (at least I...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jan 4, 2001 6:47 pm
155
... Whatever. It is, as we're all so fond of saying on this list, syntactic sugar. :) Speaking of which, there were a couple of incorrect dates on the var'aq...
j proctor
jproctor@...
Jan 4, 2001 7:05 pm
156
... Er - I hate to be a wonk (or *do* I?) but they're not exactly the same concept. An evaluator would be an interpreter or compiler, which could be ...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Jan 5, 2001 1:20 am
157
I have been informed that var'aq (the first known programming language for Klingons, to those of you who aren't on varaq-dev) will be featured in Entertainment...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jan 9, 2001 9:02 pm
158
On the home page is the newly designed var'aq logo. I might like to eventually replace the ones and zeros with the klingon equivalent and add a pIqaD ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jan 11, 2001 11:09 pm
159
So I've started work on specifying an API for file access in var'aq, and I was wondering what y'all thought of the following concepts... -The system is...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jan 18, 2001 12:01 am
160
... That seems reasonable. The klingon verb {choq} "preserve" might be a good name for the "flush" operator: files are just variables that get "preserved"...
Alan Anderson
aranders@...
Jan 18, 2001 1:42 am
161
... Okay. I'll use it. ... It fits nicely with the idea of smart devices and distributed authentication, I should think... ... Either one will do. I was...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jan 18, 2001 3:33 pm
162
Okay. No traffic at all... well, I've been up to other things so var'aq has gotten very little attention from me in months. What I'm thinking of doing is...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Apr 4, 2001 7:45 pm
163
... The third sunday this month is the 15th, which is inconveniently both Easter and the only sunday that I'll be out of the state. If that's really...
j proctor
jproctor@...
Apr 4, 2001 7:56 pm
164
... Hash: SHA1 Can you make an ISO image of it, please? 'Con season is heating up, and what better way to get movement in var'aq than to have an ISO, maybe...
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