... 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...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jul 10, 2000 6:45 pm
31
Due to the dearth of known Klingon computing terms, I've taken the liberty to post a few of the terms I've coined. Opinions? bit -- chavI' The sense being...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 11, 2000 11:56 pm
32
Well, this time the upload went off without a hitch. Veddy unusual, that. The Spec: Added bitwise operators Added several predicate (-'a') functions Renamed...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 12, 2000 12:30 am
33
... Erk. I don't like it. It doesn't say "twosome" at all. You could try something weird like {chang'eng}/"pair" (even though there's only one bit, but...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jul 13, 2000 3:42 am
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... Good; {Daj} doesn't mean "be inconclusive", it means "test inconclusively". That isn't even "test and discover not to be so" but "test and find your test...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jul 13, 2000 3:43 am
35
... At the risk of seeming unpopular again... I'm not so convinced var'aq should be so transparent; there's no need to dwell on 'bits' in an application...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Jul 13, 2000 9:43 pm
36
... Hey, if y'all are happy I'm happy... ... No. I nailed that one down pretty easily (after a fashion). The problem now is that once you're actually inside a...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 14, 2000 3:23 pm
37
... That works in the sense of bit==Boolean value, but not a bit as a storage unit. (That's okay, though, because we do need a word for boolean...) ... Hey,...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 14, 2000 3:31 pm
38
... Well, think of it this way: the concept of a bit, a true/false value, is certainly basic enough that in a world as anthropomorphic as Star Trek's, we can...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jul 14, 2000 8:50 pm
39
... Careful. I meant "Good, that's NOT the final form." I'm approving your disapproval. So no, I'm not happy with that version. :) ~mark...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jul 14, 2000 8:56 pm
40
... No, it's still good. The smallest amount of information you can store is an answer (to a yes/no question). A string of eight of them can store numbers up...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jul 14, 2000 8:57 pm
41
... ?? Isn't that exactly what a byte is? An eight-bit unit? ... This is one reason to avoid bits in abstract computing languages in general, having nothing...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Jul 14, 2000 9:46 pm
42
... Not really. Byte is actually system-dependent; some systems use 16-bit bytes, some larger... People tend to (mis)use the term to mean strictly an ...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Jul 16, 2000 2:34 am
43
Well, we have reached a milestone, I should think... With Chris' most recent code contributions, we now have several things we didn't have before: -comments ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 18, 2000 11:38 pm
44
By the time you get this message, varaq-072000.tgz will be up on the website. It's the technology release I promised earlier this week -- take a look, rip it ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 20, 2000 6:38 pm
45
I have announced var'aq to freshmeat.net. The announcement should show up sometime today. I was about to upload the latest release (072500 qeylIS) and then I...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 25, 2000 7:05 pm
46
These are the relevant files from var'aq 072500 qeylIS (the interpreters and the bottles.vq program file). I'll put up the correct archive (including the ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 25, 2000 7:40 pm
47
The archive is on the site. Thank you for your patience; there have also been some spec revisions that will be posted shortly (mostly string handling). /Brian ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 26, 2000 4:27 pm
48
Okay... Now that we have a sufficiently working interpreter and some getting-started stuff, it's time to do two things: -Finish the spec and bring the...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 27, 2000 9:18 pm
49
Something to end the lack of discussion... I've updated the spec with some string semantics. As stated, it's extremely basic, no regexp or other funny ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Jul 31, 2000 10:10 pm
50
... OK. The list *has* been quiet lately. And the best way to break the silence is to spew a lot of controversial garbage into the air, and sit back and let...
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