... 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...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Aug 2, 2000 6:38 am
51
... Good point. They aren't really all that necessary, are they? I haven't really given that point a lot of thought, but I suppose removing them wouldn't hurt....
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Aug 2, 2000 6:25 pm
52
To the list: I'll be away for a week starting tomorrow, far far away from internet access in the mystical land of Cape Cod, MA. I've made sure that even if I...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Aug 3, 2000 10:53 pm
53
... Wouldn't it make sense that file structures were proprietary for the most part? From a realism standpoint, not a developer's? In RW, you very rarely see...
rjstreet@...
Aug 4, 2000 12:27 am
54
Just a quick note: I noticed that you were considering removing the set/cher operator - don't! The way I read the spec, this operator allows for double ...
rjstreet@...
Aug 4, 2000 2:21 pm
55
Well, I'm back, and I've done a fair amount of design-level work on my vacation to qeyp qoD. This is sort of a quick update of what I've been doing. Basically,...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Aug 12, 2000 4:42 pm
56
One more thing -- anyone want to create some page graphics? I'm not too handy with the freehand tool in AppleWorks... /Brian ===== -- ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Aug 12, 2000 4:43 pm
57
http://www.geocities.com/connorbd/varaq/proposals/vqstyle.html I'm trying to write it in character and I'm looking for some peer review to make sure it makes...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Aug 14, 2000 3:24 pm
58
you know, I've been getting a few emails lately... we're getting noticed... anyone have anything at all to say?! var'aq was mentioned on slashdot.org today in...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Aug 15, 2000 7:47 pm
59
... Now this is more like it - a place where a truly Klingon programming culture could really express itself. The last four points are different ways of...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Aug 16, 2000 12:08 am
60
... http://www.geocities.com/connorbd/varaq/proposals/vqstyle.html ... I think a more spartan approach would be called for. I envision the var'aq programming...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Aug 16, 2000 6:21 pm
61
I am in the process of writing "Nalakil's Workstation", a description of Klingon programming (technology and culture) from the point of view of na'la'qel, a...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Aug 18, 2000 7:05 pm
62
Well, it's official -- the spec now supports a way to get data into a var'aq program. Now to implement it. There are also app extensions and MIME types defined...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Aug 18, 2000 7:23 pm
63
... [...] ... Okay, so I only found var'aq today (thanks, memepool!), but I just went through the 62 messages archived at eGroups. My vote is to keep the...
jproctor@...
Sep 1, 2000 3:57 am
64
... Good, we need some traffic here... ... The problem with the bitwise operators is not that they aren't useful, but that they don't really fit into the...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 1, 2000 6:44 pm
65
... Perhaps I'm missing something about the problem domain. Efficiency would be a requirement anywhere, and (to stretch and twist your analogy) Java's being...
j proctor
jproctor@...
Sep 1, 2000 7:32 pm
66
... Well, there is something in favor of 4 or 8 or 16 bits as a basic unit: it's a power of 2, and that makes addressing make more sense. ~mark...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Sep 1, 2000 8:10 pm
67
... Been done; read up on Intercal and its extension, tri-Intercal. They have operators in base-3 (and base-4 through base-7; they stopped at 7 because base-8...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Sep 1, 2000 8:29 pm
68
The *only* reason we use digital computers in the modern world is because digital signal lines are the least noisy (see the work of Clause Shannon.)...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Sep 1, 2000 10:11 pm
69
... I meant to type *Claude* Shannon of course. I think I may have also typed "Alan Church" a long time ago on this list. That is way wrong too, the name's...
Chris Pressey
house.of.varaq@...
Sep 1, 2000 10:16 pm
70
... I have read up on Intercal. I didn't say base-3 logic wasn't possible--I said I wasn't going to do it. yInwIjvaD lI'be' If I got that even close to...
j proctor
jproctor@...
Sep 2, 2000 2:57 am
71
... Base 3 for alien computers is a rather silly concept, if you think about it. We're assuming here that Klingons would understand basically the same idea of ...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 5, 2000 8:08 pm
72
... True. Thus the issue of whether or not we preserve the bitwise operators in var'aq. BTW, does anyone have any alternate coinages for and/or/xor? ... Thus...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 5, 2000 8:16 pm
73
... The thing about var'aq is that it's intended as an application language, not a system programming language, so it doesn't need to (and probably shouldn't,...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 5, 2000 8:28 pm
74
In response to the latest burst of traffic on this group, I've updated the var'aq spec again. -The ~ operator has been given a name (lI'moH -- make it useful),...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 6, 2000 7:16 pm
75
... nIteb isn't a verb; the only thing {nItebmoH} means is "make them fill you". This one we should probably try to fix. Hmm. {mobmoH} is more "make alone",...
Mark E. Shoulson
mark@...
Sep 6, 2000 9:29 pm
76
... Okay. Sounds good. /Brian ===== -- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere!...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 7, 2000 11:37 pm
77
Okay, fixed the spec, with Mark's suggestion. I've changed the logical operators and also altered the MIME types. The new varaq-engl has been posted (the...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 8, 2000 12:34 am
78
Okay, fixed the spec, with Mark's suggestion. I've changed the logical operators and also altered the MIME types. The new varaq-engl has been posted (the...
Brian Connors
connorbd@...
Sep 8, 2000 12:34 am
79
A thought I'm kicking around... The ultimate plan for var'aq is to create the first toy language designed with distributed processing built in. Well, here's...
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