Re: [computer-go] Re: Java hounds salivate over this:

2007-06-17 Thread Darren Cook
> Other than that, I am in the process of adding multi-thread support, > for which I am using a boost library, which again can be compiled on > pretty much any modern platform. I used Boost.Thread for the first time recently (on a project nothing to do with computer go) and it was so easy. I devel

Re: [computer-go] Re: Java hounds salivate over this:

2007-06-16 Thread Álvaro Begué
What part of a go program written in C or C++ are you guys having portability problems with? In dimwit there might be some assumptions, like ints being at least 32 bits, that are not portable, and we use a 64-bit type, which is not described in the C++ standard (the C99 standard does have one). Ot

Re: [computer-go] Re: Java hounds salivate over this:

2007-06-16 Thread steve uurtamo
i'm simply stunned. i'll have to check it out. s. - Original Message From: Hellwig Geisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: computer-go Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 1:39:19 AM Subject: Re: [computer-go] Re: Java hounds salivate over this: On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 15:12 -0700, ste

Re: [computer-go] Re: Java hounds salivate over this:

2007-06-15 Thread Hellwig Geisse
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 15:12 -0700, steve uurtamo wrote: > my last $0.02 on this -- let me know when you've written > a kernel in java, and tell me how fast your operating system > (written entirely in java) runs. > > what? that can't be done? :) Well, in fact that can be done... :-) http://www

[computer-go] Re: Java hounds salivate over this:

2007-06-15 Thread Dave Dyer
At 03:12 PM 6/15/2007, steve uurtamo wrote: >my last $0.02 on this -- let me know when you've written a kernel in java, and >tell me how fast your operating system (written entirely in java) runs. I could point out that lisp machines had no other language at the core. The entire operating syste

Re: [computer-go] Re: Java hounds salivate over this:

2007-06-15 Thread steve uurtamo
nt: Friday, June 15, 2007 5:58:19 PM Subject: Re: [computer-go] Re: Java hounds salivate over this: > The approach that C supports is "chaos: deal with it". Is it an approach? or a mere fact of consecuences ? I mean, people started to build C compilers on every machine, thats all.

Re: [computer-go] Re: Java hounds salivate over this:

2007-06-15 Thread Eduardo Sabbatella
> The approach that C supports is "chaos: deal with it". Is it an approach? or a mere fact of consecuences ? I mean, people started to build C compilers on every machine, thats all. The standard library is less standard than any other thing... C was one of the first mainstream languages, also w

Re: [computer-go] Re: Java hounds salivate over this:

2007-06-15 Thread terry mcintyre
Now that takes me back to days of your. Can we run TECO on a PDP-10 emulator? Early versions of EMACS were actually written on top of TECO -- how's that for layers upon layers of emulation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Editor_and_Corrector - Original Message From: Dave Dyer <[EM

Re: [computer-go] Re: Java hounds salivate over this:

2007-06-15 Thread Robin Kramer
So long as we are all wrong. Java is for managers who are insecure about there ability to manage highly trained C programmers so they get together and with elitest academians and design some dingo language to try to get a set of cut rate cogs they can fit in their machines, and expect C programme

[computer-go] Re: Java hounds salivate over this:

2007-06-15 Thread Dave Dyer
> >So if there was any language which allows a programmer to port their code to >be compileable and executable on a wide variety of systems it is C. > Java and C support two fundamentally different approaches to portability. The approach that C supports is "chaos: deal with it". Figure out