autogen

http://autogen.sourceforge.net/ Maybe everyone knows about this already but I didn't know about it until just now. Enjoy. -- May the best description of competition prevail. (via, but not speaking for Deutsche Bank)

stackless python

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/python/2000/10/04/stackless-intro.html -- May the best description of competition prevail. (via, but not speaking for Deutsche Bank)

Re: Backtracking through meta swamp

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 08:33:35AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Bryan C. Warnock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Simon Cozens wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:54:31AM +, Simon Cozens wrote: > > > > I categorically do *NOT* want perl6-internals to turn into

Fwd: Update on C--

- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 08:55:25 -0800 Subject: Update on C-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentle C-- colleagues This message is just to update you on the state of play in C--. Please do send mail to the l

Re: Supporting architectures without native C support (was Re: Meta-design)

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:06:27AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Because the Python folks didn't have a problem basing JPython off of > > CPython. > > Actually, this one isn't a good comparison. Python is substantially easier > to parse, and, is a much simpler language. I like Perl becaus

Re: Thought for the day

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:52:36PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Once one starts reading more quotations one will find that quotations > get misquoted, shortened, misattributed, rewritten, more than you > really wanted to believe. Some persons seem to be 'quotation > sponges', everything witt

Rare Salt-Water Camel May Be Separate Species

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/07/science/07reuters-camel.html -- May the best description of competition prevail. (via, but not speaking for Deutsche Bank)

kdb

Does everyone already know about www.kx.com ? -- May the best description of competition prevail. (via, but not speaking for Deutsche Bank)

Re: kdb

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:16:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 09:36 AM 2/9/2001 -0500, Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > >Does everyone already know about www.kx.com ? > > What about it? Looks like yet another semi-specialized relational database > company. (With a far

Re: kdb

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:51:02PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > > Does everyone already know about www.kx.com ? > > Well, I found Kdb nothing awesome... The K language I thought it's a > somewhat interesting, specially the part on "bu

Re: kdb

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:13:46PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Joshua N Pritikin wrote: > > Well yah! Perl6 array indeed. It also reminds me of PDL. i like the > > data model. It looks like FAME done right. > > Are you suggesting we borrow some features of it? Tak

Re: WAP-enabled cellular furbie

On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 03:49:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 07:28 PM 8/24/00 +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > >When a Palm "is" a WAP Phone it will have one, and while Teddy Bears may > >not I am sure Furbie-II will... > > I'm picturing a WAP-enabled cellular furbie with an R2D2-style

Re: a garbage collection book

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:15:39PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I didn't realize until I read through parts of this exactly how much time a > refcounting GC scheme took. Between that and perl 5's penchant for > flattening arrays and hashes (which creates a lot of garbage itself for > biggi

Re: Perl Implementation Language

On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:09:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Currently I'm thinking C for the target compiler just because of its > ubiquity. I don't think it matters much. Any language similar to C (or C itself) is fine. The ticklish part is garbage collection, exceptions, and the for