Re: If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

2009-07-21 Thread Frank Buss
so this is something where Lisp distributions could be improved. -- Frank Buss, f...@frank-buss.de http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ignore special characters in python regex

2009-07-20 Thread Frank Buss
Astan Chee wrote: > I'm reading text from a file (per line) and I want to do a regex using > these lines but I want the regex to ignore any special characters and > treat them like normal strings. > Is there a regex function that can do this? Maybe re.escape helps? -- Frank

Re: any suggestions to synchronize typed text and speech ?

2009-07-20 Thread Frank Buss
nd some special key > is pressed, > the sound starting 10 or 20seconds earlier should be playbacked. You could use some screen recording tools, e.g. http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp on Windows. Most tools allows you to record speech while recording the screen. -- Frank Buss, f.

Re: If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

2009-07-20 Thread Frank Buss
I think it's usable). I didn't tried it myself, but looks like it is not very stable: http://www.mail-archive.com/application-buil...@lispniks.com/msg01069.html -- Frank Buss, f...@frank-buss.de http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

2009-07-19 Thread Frank Buss
cases, like embedded systems, the most installed and used operating systems might be Unix-like systems and Windows. But looks like Python even runs on more native operating systems for mainframes. -- Frank Buss, f...@frank-buss.de http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de -- http://

Re: Final Project

2009-07-19 Thread Frank Buss
27;t forget to limit the access to the webpage or the size of the output image, to avoid trouble with your hosting provider, if you don't have your own server and anything slows down because of your rendering task :-) -- Frank Buss, f...@frank-buss.de http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-

Re: If Scheme is so good why MIT drops it?

2009-07-19 Thread Frank Buss
roductive programmers: http://www.artima.com/intv/speedP.html (of course, an interview with Van Rossum might be a bit biased :-) -- Frank Buss, f...@frank-buss.de http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ignorance and intolerance in computing communties

2007-05-03 Thread Frank Buss
it yourself: https://openjdk.dev.java.net/ -- Frank Buss, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: logo design

2006-10-29 Thread Frank Buss
don't like the "made with secret alien technology" text: http://www.lisperati.com/logo.html http://www.normal-null.de/lisp_logo.html -- Frank Buss, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: languages with full unicode support

2006-06-25 Thread Frank Buss
Xah Lee wrote: > Lisps → No. The Common Lisp spec (CLHS) doesn't require that implementations support Unicode characters, but it doesn't forbid it and some implementations support it, e.g. http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes.html -- Frank Buss, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.frank-

Re: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

2006-05-07 Thread Frank Buss
d arguments in Python. And looks like you are right again (I've tested it in Pyhton) and my assumption was wrong, so the important thing is to support closures, which Python does, even with local function definitions. -- Frank Buss, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-

Re: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

2006-05-07 Thread Frank Buss
1.0 0.0))) This function returns a new function, which is parametrized with the supplied arguments and can be used later as building blocks for other functions and itself wraps input functions. I don't know Python good enough, maybe closures are possible with locale named function d

Re: algorithmic mathematical art

2006-05-07 Thread Frank Buss
ited in the book, too: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-15.html#footnote_Temp_202 -- Frank Buss, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

2006-05-07 Thread Frank Buss
s to which this troll thread was posted :-) -- Frank Buss, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: how to write a tutorial

2005-01-21 Thread Frank Buss
drewc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does this have to do with Lisp? (i'm in c.l.l). he is a troll, but one who confess this fact: http://www.xahlee.org/Netiquette_dir/troll.html -- Frank Buß, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de -- http://mail.python.org/m