Re: web authoring tools

2005-04-12 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > Brandon J. Van Every wrote: >> >> I believe Dreamweaver-esque. I see myself writing articles and >> eventually doing snazzy eye candy layouts. I do not see myself >> engaging in elaborate flow control or anything ter

Re: web authoring tools

2005-04-11 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
=?iso-8859-15?Q?Pierre-Fr=E9d=E9ric_Caillaud?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Ideally, I would like an open source website + html design tool implemented in Python >>> >>> didn't you just say that ideally, you wanted a tool written in lisp >>> or scheme? >> >> I

Re: web authoring tools

2005-04-11 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Ron_Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> >>http://www.igda.org/seattle/ >>http://www.cyphondesign.com/ >>http://www.alphageeksinc.com/ >>http://www.gamasutra.com > > These top three where done with text editors. If you view the source, > you will notice the formatting has good consistent indentin

Re: web authoring tools

2005-04-11 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > >> Ideally, I would like an open source website + html design tool >> implemented in Python > > didn't you just say that ideally, you wanted a tool

web authoring tools

2005-04-10 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
As is easily noticed, my website sucks. Enough people keep ragging on me about it, that maybe I'll up and do something about it. However, I currently have FrontPage 2000 and I hate it. Ideally, I would like an open source website + html design tool implemented in Python, so that possibly someday

Re: compiled open source Windows lisp (was Re: Python becoming less Lisp-like)

2005-03-16 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Carl Shapiro wrote: > "Brandon J. Van Every" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > >> Last I looked, 2 years ago?, there were no compiled, open source >> lisps that ran on Windows. Has this changed? > > I have a virtually completed port of CMUCL to Win32.

Re: compiled open source Windows lisp

2005-03-15 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Christopher C. Stacy wrote: > > All this information has been available in FAQs and > on many web pages since forever. When I Google for "comp.lang.lisp FAQ," I get a document that was last updated in 1997. Consequently I do not pay attention to it. I do peruse newsgroup archives, and I did make

compiled open source Windows lisp (was Re: Python becoming less Lisp-like)

2005-03-15 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
James Graves wrote: > > If you want to do application development, Common Lisp is where it's > at, no doubt about it. There are more and better libraries for CL > these days, and they are easier to install and manage with tools like > ASDF. Multiple open-source implementations, covering the most p

Re: Python becoming less Lisp-like

2005-03-15 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
James Graves wrote: > > So with Python 3000, you're going to end up with a language just as > big as CL, but without the most fundamental building blocks. Ah > well, to each his own. Preventing people from building things from scratch is probably an industrial advantage. Look how fragmented the

Re: Beware complexity

2005-03-13 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Philip Smith wrote: > > Conventions on type conversion are just one example. Without using > strict coding conventions the richness of the language could, and > often did, result in ambiguity. In my experience too C++ has > defeated its own object (eg portability) - I've given up in many > cases