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
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
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
Does everyone already know about www.kx.com ?
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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
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
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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 08:55:25 -0800
Subject: Update on C--
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Gentle C-- colleagues
This message is just to update you on the state of play in C--.
Please do send mail to the l
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/python/2000/10/04/stackless-intro.html
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http://autogen.sourceforge.net/
Maybe everyone knows about this already but I didn't know about it until
just now. Enjoy.
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:37:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 12:27 PM 10/3/00 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> >Serializing an optree is rather tricky especially if one wants to
> >deserialize it on a different platform. Because of icky things like
> >structure padding one effectively
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
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
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
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 10:16:03AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> At 10:01 AM 8/9/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote:
> >But for the generic object. The package itself can contain an indirection
> >table. This would be that sparse table with the offset in the object vtbl.
>
> That's going to be a v
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:54:46AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > But how do you explain the fact that S. P. Jones uses Latex and cygwin?
>
> Easily. He is the hacker, not the supervisor.
>
> It's pretty evid
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:30:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm not sure about this one. My odds-on favorite answer: Picture some
> M$ hackers telling their supervisor they are working on some GCC
> enhancements.
But how do you explain the fact that S. P. Jones uses Latex and cygwin?
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:33:25AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ... Quickie summary. Implementations: one[1] semi-free
> (non-DFSG-compliant) complete. Others in progress.
>
> Why not specify as a C extension: I'm still looking for that.
The following paper is recommended over the one pos
A few more clicks and I found:
http://www.cminusminus.org/
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On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 09:32:10AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:30:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I'd prefer us to tackle native code generation using C as the
> > >
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 06:19:33PM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Since no-one has mentioned it yet, I just thought I'd point out that the
> Perl Data Language (PDL) has a system for automatically generating XS code
> from a "simpler" interface called PDL::PP.
Good point. Thanks for mentioni
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:30:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > perl5 is interpreter-centric with native code generation
> > bolted on well into the development lifecycle.
>
> I'd prefer us to tackle native code generation using C as t
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:40:09PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:57:27AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> > http://windows.oreilly.com/news/hejlsberg_0800.html
>
> Impressive. Quite deeply impressive.
Careful! Don't be overwhelmed by the marketing spin. Don't
under
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:38:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can I safely assume that we will be counting references for garbage
> collection?
Well, for starters. However, I'd like to see a distinction made between
destructors that must run at the end of a scope, and those lacking an
urg
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:13:50PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'd also like to teach PI (or whatever it becomes) to produce joined
> opcodes. Ilya did some profiling of perl 5 code, and there were a bunch of
> common op pairs. Joining them together (thus saving both dispatch time
> *and*
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:01:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:20:00PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> > Ken Fox writes:
> > > pipeline stalls, cache misses and a whole bunch of interesting things. One
> > > of the reasons Perl performed well is that it spent a l
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:42:16PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:39:05AM -0400, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > Ah! PI is a great idea. Why not dump as much intelligence as possible
> > into PI?
>
> Because it'll make using a source lev
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:47:25PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >I've heard rumors about PI -- Perl Implementation language. What is it?
>
> Well PI is what Chip was calling his OO-in-C pre-processor before Topaz
&
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:55:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Non-inline functions have their place in reducing code size
> >and easing debugging. I just want an i_foo for every foo that callers
> >will have the option of using.
>
> Before we make any promises to do all that extra work c
I've heard rumors about PI -- Perl Implementation language. What is it?
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