Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-16 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:00:05 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) said: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:05:40PM -0500, Eugene Tyurin wrote: > > Many years ago (circa 1988) I remember briefly trying out some > > package called Texas Instruments' Scheme. Bac

Fwd: Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-16 Thread rob
I are stoopid. James, my apologies for the duplicate email. rob - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:27:21 -0700 (MST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: scripting language vs. developer community size To: James LewisMoss

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-16 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) writes: > The basic data structure in Scheme (and all LISP-like languages... in > fact LISP is an acronym for LIst PRocessing) is the singly-linked > list. The backbone of the list is a chain of cells ("cons cells") > that have a pointer to the cell data and a "n

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Nope, that's not it. g-wrap is installed in /usr (as per the RPM): > > > /usr/share/guile/g-wrapped/libgw-runtime.so.0.0.0 > > I think this is the problem -- I *believe*, though I'm not rock-solid > enou

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-16 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nope, that's not it. g-wrap is installed in /usr (as per the RPM): > /usr/share/guile/g-wrapped/libgw-runtime.so.0.0.0 I think this is the problem -- I *believe*, though I'm not rock-solid enough on the issues with the various guile version, ldso vers

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What happens when you evaluate %load-path from the guile command line? > How about from a > > gnucash --evaluate '(display %load-path)' Ready> /var/tmp/gnucash/bin/gnucash --evaluate '(display %load-path)' ERROR: In procedure gsubr-apply in expressi

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-16 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nope, that's not it. g-wrap is installed in /usr (as per the RPM): > > Ready> where g-wrap-config > /usr/bin/g-wrap-config > Ready> g-wrap-config --c-link-args guile > -L/usr/lib -lg-wrap-runtime-guile What happens when you evaluate %load-path from th

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Nope, that's not it. g-wrap is installed in /usr (as per the RPM): Ready> where g-wrap-config /usr/bin/g-wrap-config Ready> g-wrap-config --c-link-args guile -L/usr/lib -lg-wrap-runtime-guile Here are all the g-wrap files installed: Ready> rpm -ql g-wrap g-wrap-devel /usr/doc/g-wrap-1.1.7 /usr

Re: More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-16 Thread Rob Browning
Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I'm still having problems with GnuCash and g-wrap. I finally > got everything to compile cleanly on RH 6.2 (I'll send patches in > once I get it up and actually running). However, when I try to > run GnuCash, it exits with the following error: > >

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-16 Thread Bill Gribble
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:09:51AM -0700, Clark Jones wrote: > Just in case anyone's not aware of it, the "CAR" and "CDR" in Lisp (I'm > not familiar with Scheme) are register names for a computer designed in > the late 1950's. (Please don't ask me what the acronyms stand for, or > what the compu

More g-wrap problems with GnuCash

2001-01-16 Thread Derek Atkins
Ok, I'm still having problems with GnuCash and g-wrap. I finally got everything to compile cleanly on RH 6.2 (I'll send patches in once I get it up and actually running). However, when I try to run GnuCash, it exits with the following error: ERROR: In procedure gsubr-apply in expression (scm-er

Re: Need information on file read/write sequence format

2001-01-16 Thread David Merrill
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:25:53AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi David, > > Yes, I'm still working on this. Basically doing some research and coming up with a >doc on the design (should include the restrictions that MySQL imposes). > I have a lot of questions, but I would like to order t

Re: attaching callbacks (was Re: arguments to -render . . .)

2001-01-16 Thread Bill Gribble
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:30:43PM +1100, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: > Yep. The only thing I need to figure out is "callbacks". Your example > account-tree report doesn't mention them. I'm about to dig through > the code to see if I can figure it out. There's a good reason you can't find anyt

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-16 Thread Clark Jones
Tyson Dowd wrote: > > On 15-Jan-2001, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Now I'm reading about car, cdr, caar, cddr, cadr, cdar, and the like. > > How nice that all the keywords of the language are so intuitive and high-level, > > uninfluenced by the hardware the language originally r

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-16 Thread Rob Browning
Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > p.s. I hope to use GnuCash soon myself, and am quite happy that the > latest RPM's install without trouble on Red Hat 6.2. And I'm trying > to learn Scheme, so if I run into a feature I've gotta have, I can > add it... If you need any help with scheme, fe

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-16 Thread Rob Browning
Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > By the way, I went and bought a Scheme book today at my favorite > technical bookstore (Op-Amp Books in Los Angeles). I asked the > clerk where the Scheme books were and he sniggered... there was an > entire wall of C++ books, and just four books about Sch

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-16 Thread Bill Gribble
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:05:40PM -0500, Eugene Tyurin wrote: > Many years ago (circa 1988) I remember briefly trying out some > package called Texas Instruments' Scheme. Back then I thought it > looked like a dialect of Lisp with some additional system and GUI > toolkits. > > Is th

RE: Need information on file read/write sequence format

2001-01-16 Thread alexjp
Hi David, Yes, I'm still working on this. Basically doing some research and coming up with a doc on the design (should include the restrictions that MySQL imposes). I have a lot of questions, but I would like to order them on some sort of coherent level before I start asking them. Regards A

Re: Need information on file read/write sequence format

2001-01-16 Thread David Merrill
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 02:53:16PM -0600, Alex J.P. wrote: > Hi All > > Have been reading the mail for the past couple of months. I would like to > write a small routine to dump and read gnucash data off a MySQL > database/tables. If it works, am thinking of writing a generic routine with a >