martoq takes another step closer to reality... http://www.geocities.com/connorbd/varaq/varaq-unstable.zip -The consume operator that makes lists out of ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 5, 2001 4:26 pm
211
It's not an easy book to find (I probably wouldn't have it if my new job wasn't in a bookstore) but nevertheless, try and find this book: Software Tools Brian...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 5, 2001 4:43 pm
212
... Great Book! I read it years ago. ... Actually Ratfor (Rational Fortran) was a preprocessor on top of Fortran that gave it a more structured format. The ...
G. Wade Johnson
gwadej@...
Sep 6, 2001 4:27 am
213
... Copying grep might be complicated, but a simple "find" command would work fine. cat would be almost ridiculously easy, though. Data manipulation: how might...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 6, 2001 3:20 pm
214
... I actually was thinking of the general idea of finding something in a file, as opposed to grep itself. (Although, it's not really that hard.) How about wam...
G. Wade Johnson
gwadej@...
Sep 6, 2001 11:24 pm
215
... I've thought that perhaps regexps would be considered too complicated and/or fraught with error to mess with, perhaps a black art that only compiler...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 11, 2001 12:53 am
216
... It's not really that complicated, but I have trouble seeing a Klingon taking that approach to solving a problem. ... Sounds reasonable. ... There's not...
G. Wade Johnson
gwadej@...
Sep 11, 2001 1:21 am
217
... I'm going to rant here, for no really major reason, but something about these discussions just seems wrong... Here we are, sitting back on our vast,...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Sep 12, 2001 1:18 pm
218
... A fair statement, and my only defense in this case is that I have a nasty habit of saying what I mean without making sure everyone else knows what I mean. ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 12, 2001 5:41 pm
219
For the uncounted thousands who died in NYC, Arlington (VA), and Pennsylvania: Let Sto-vo-kor know they're coming. Seriously, as the administrator of this...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 12, 2001 8:35 pm
220
... Point taken. I actually wasn't intending to sound as if I thought that Klingons are inherently stupid. However, cultural blinders can make it difficult to...
G. Wade Johnson
gwadej@...
Sep 12, 2001 10:00 pm
221
... Well, yeah, that's sort of the problem. If we're finding the "least common denominator" between what we know how to do and what we think Klingons will ...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Sep 14, 2001 10:33 am
222
Okay... work continues on martoq; I've been beating the crap out of the new list code (mostly Jeff's work, though I did the consume function in 20010904) and...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 18, 2001 5:34 am
223
Unlurking Somehow from a cultural POV something more like a pipe seems more approriate. Streams seem too 'fuzzy' for a Klingon. Maybe something along the...
John-Martin
jmlotzn1@...
Sep 18, 2001 9:51 am
224
var'aq Remote Procedure Invocation This is a call to create a simple RPC protocol for var'aq development. I've given this some thought for a little while, and...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 18, 2001 9:24 pm
225
So I'm writing a sort of cultural perspective on Klingon hackerdom; since I'm an outsider myself I'm writing it from an outsider's point of view (Starfleet ...
... Thanks. A quick summary of what these are for: consume/Sop -- Converts all items down to a qaw marker into a single list. unbury/molHa' -- Moves down the...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 19, 2001 5:00 pm
228
I've recently given a very small amount of thought to a somewhat different idea for a Klingon programming language than var'aq. var'aq is and always has been...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 19, 2001 6:22 pm
229
... Fortran isn't a low-level language in *my* book. ... I don't know what you mean by "legitimate part of the Klingon community", but I suspect it doesn't...
Alan Anderson
aranders@...
Oct 2, 2001 12:05 pm
230
... Okay... conceptual confusion on my part, I suppose (C is more low-level than Fortran...). But you get the general idea. ... Someone more in touch with the...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Oct 2, 2001 8:37 pm
231
So, yeah, in case you haven't noticed martoq isn't ready yet; in fact, I haven't even had a chance to put any work into it at all for the last couple of weeks....
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Oct 14, 2001 5:45 pm
232
I ask because at some point I intend to finish Martoq, and after that I'd like to be able to see var'aq code in pIqaD as well as roman text. /Brian ===== -- ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Nov 14, 2001 7:35 pm
233
Hello, I'm a newbie to the list, so I apologize in advance if these issues have been clarified before. 1) Scope: In the following line: ~ foo { ~ bar { } name...
... I am *way* far from an expert on this, but I'll take a swing. ... Actually, I'm not sure. But I *think* it's weirder than that. :) Bar *will* be global,...
Jeff Evarts
riventree@...
Nov 18, 2001 6:55 pm
235
... This is correct. var'aq has no useful concept of "scope"; whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is to be left to the user, but I don't see any reason...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Nov 18, 2001 9:18 pm
236
... Unicode characters U+F8D0 to U+F8F9 are semi-officially allocated to Klingon. With an Unicode-capable xterm and a Unicode X11 font, it would be possible to...
Continued from an email conversation on a different subject, hopefully to be revealed later; I hope Mauro doesn't mind... ... Like I said, var'aq has no...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Nov 20, 2001 11:22 pm
239
Mauro has brought the matter of virtual machines to my attention in a manner that I'll leave up to him to describe. I've chosen that opportunity to suggest how...
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