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...
John Galt
galt@...
Apr 4, 2001 10:50 pm
165
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
house.of.varaq@...
Apr 4, 2001 11:41 pm
166
... 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
connorbd@...
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
connorbd@...
Apr 5, 2001 12:49 am
168
... 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
jproctor@...
Apr 5, 2001 2:15 pm
169
... 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
mark@...
Apr 5, 2001 2:51 pm
170
... 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
aranders@...
Apr 5, 2001 4:59 pm
171
... 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
connorbd@...
Apr 5, 2001 5:43 pm
172
... 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
house.of.varaq@...
Apr 5, 2001 5:58 pm
173
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
connorbd@...
Apr 6, 2001 5:23 pm
174
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
gwadej@...
May 30, 2001 4:07 am
175
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
jproctor@...
Jun 15, 2001 11:41 am
176
... 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
178
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 ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 16, 2001 6:26 pm
179
... Ahhh. In Forth, there is an interesting distinction between compile-time and run-time. People sometimes lose sight of it, because Forth code can be...
G. Wade Johnson
gwadej@...
Jun 16, 2001 9:18 pm
180
... Of course the source code will be there. This is Perl. :) Will mere mortals be able to understand it? I suppose it's possible. Go see...
j proctor
jproctor@...
Jun 18, 2001 1:32 pm
181
... The more cogent question is, will he do it RIGHT? ~mark...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jun 19, 2001 1:38 am
182
... If not, tell him. He strikes me as the kind of guy who'd rather change it than propagate problems. It looked like the right idea, anyway, if a little...
j proctor
jproctor@...
Jun 19, 2001 2:26 am
183
... This makes me think of a good question -- one of the big architectural changes needed in var'aq is some kind of modularity so I can cut down on the size of...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 19, 2001 7:47 pm
184
... Drat it, you're gonna make me go look at the code again, aren't you? If I remember what you're asking, it seems we had a short discussion about something...
j proctor
jproctor@...
Jun 19, 2001 8:30 pm
185
Hello! Could someone check the varaq-engl.pl and varaq-kling.pl files and see if they agree that the logical operators (and, or, xor) *always* evaluate to ...
Mr. Merrick J. Stemen
mstemen@...
Jun 20, 2001 1:20 am
186
Hello again! I have run across a couple of errors in code in the sample folder so far: in the BOTTLES.vq program, the "wa'teq" operator has been superceded by...
Mr. Merrick J. Stemen
mstemen@...
Jun 20, 2001 3:07 am
187
... Fooey. Grumble grumble boundary condition grumble gamma function grumble. A future release will clean it up. But not tonight. I'm going to bed. j ... ...
j proctor
jproctor@...
Jun 20, 2001 3:53 am
188
... Hmmm.. I'll take a look. ... Snobol... where does one get a compiler for that, anyway? Only place I can think of is the Unix V7 tarball you can download if...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 20, 2001 4:15 pm
189
I ran into another snag in the interpreter. It seems that the 'name/pong' command works fine, but the 'set/cher' command fails to behave properly. I modified...
Mr. Merrick J. Stemen
mstemen@...
Jun 21, 2001 5:42 pm
190
... Okay. I'll merge them in and test them out. I've actually started compiling notes on the var'aq interpreter and some adventures testing it out. I won't...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jun 22, 2001 5:40 pm
191
Greetings from a new user of varaq. This language interested me, and I needed to learn perl to get some work done for my company, so I'm taking a swing at perl...
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