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
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Jan 3, 2001 9:40 pm
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... 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
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Jan 4, 2001 12:37 am
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... 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
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Jan 4, 2001 2:59 am
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... 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
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Jan 4, 2001 6:00 am
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... 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
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Jan 4, 2001 3:10 pm
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... 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
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Jan 4, 2001 6:47 pm
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... 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
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Jan 4, 2001 7:05 pm
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... 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
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Jan 5, 2001 1:20 am
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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
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Jan 9, 2001 9:02 pm
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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
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Jan 11, 2001 11:09 pm
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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
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Jan 18, 2001 12:01 am
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... 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
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Jan 18, 2001 1:42 am
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... 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
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Jan 18, 2001 3:33 pm
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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
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Apr 4, 2001 7:45 pm
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... 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
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Apr 4, 2001 7:56 pm
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... 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...
John Galt
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Apr 4, 2001 10:50 pm
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With the usual disclaimer than I'm not your typical Drek fan nor your typical programmer... First off, I'm sure Viacom wouldn't care at all; they should be...
Chris Pressey
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Apr 4, 2001 11:41 pm
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... Ech. Fifteenth -- Easter. I probably won't be able to be there after all; I didn't realize they were on the same day until I checked the calendar after I...
Brian Connors
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Apr 5, 2001 12:01 am
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... Tell that to Warner Bros -- they just got smacked for trying to strongarm a teenage girl who ran a Harry Potter fansite... ... True, in theory. But you...
Brian Connors
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Apr 5, 2001 12:49 am
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... Chris, your beautiful belief, while sane, rational, dare I say logical, and likely the only one that's actually legally supported by the laws of the United...
j proctor
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Apr 5, 2001 2:15 pm
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... We have a license. Check our website, it says so. It's very possible that var'aq would fit in the (insanely restricted) set of things that Paramount ...
Mark E. Shoulson
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Apr 5, 2001 2:51 pm
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... Viacom's concern probably wouldn't change even if it were given away free. They're generally interested in stopping the "unauthorized" use of their ...
Alan Anderson
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Apr 5, 2001 4:59 pm
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... Try now. I've opened up the message archive to non-member access (why it wasn't that before I don't know). /Brian ===== -- ...
Brian Connors
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Apr 5, 2001 5:43 pm
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... Oh, I totally realize I'm a fool. Which is why, if I ever personally get in legal trouble deep enough to warrant a court of law, I plan to represent...
Chris Pressey
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Apr 5, 2001 5:58 pm
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I have added a proposals page to the var'aq site. http://www.geocities.com/varaq/proposals The shoddily written vector operations and filesystem interface...
Brian Connors
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Apr 6, 2001 5:23 pm
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Picking up a short discussion between myself and Brian Connors... ... I guess I should also say that I've worked in Perl for about 8 years, and have about a...
G. Wade Johnson
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May 30, 2001 4:07 am
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At YAPC yesterday afternoon, Damian Conway announced a new Perl module that lets you use Klingon suffixes instead of funny punctuation marks in Perl. ...
j proctor
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Jun 15, 2001 11:41 am
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... module ... marks in ... I like... Actually, I hope source code would be there. This might be a solution to the problem that made var'aq syntax what it is...
connorbd@...
Jun 16, 2001 5:24 pm
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Okay, stale discussion thread, but I didn't have a chance to follow up at the time... ... That would make you a good choice for varaq-dev then :-) ... Not too...
connorbd@...
Jun 16, 2001 5:34 pm
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In response to a comment from a non-list member I've made a minor change in one of the code examples, replacing the outdated "chel" keyword with the canon ...