Re: Software Needs Philosophers

2006-05-22 Thread Matt Garrish
"Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Xah Lee wrote: >> Software Needs Philosophers >> >> by Steve Yegge, 2006-04-15. >> >> Software needs philosophers. >> >> [...] >> >> This post is archived at: >> http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/software-needs-ph

Re: Re:

2006-04-29 Thread Matt Garrish
"Bill Atkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Isn't it crazy that one person is allowed to create such a huge mess >> everytime he posts? > > Isn't it crazy that one person willfully creates such a mess every > time Xah po

Re: application and web app technologies

2006-01-03 Thread Matt Garrish
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> It might help if you elaborated on what these "doubts" are. It doesn't >> sound >> like you know any of the languages you've listed and are hoping that >> somehow >> you'll find one magical beast by cross-posting to a bunch of group

Re: application and web app technologies

2006-01-02 Thread Matt Garrish
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > January, 2006. > > * OO Perl/Perl6 -- Perl has worked real well for us, but we have > doubts that it is the best technology, and we want to make a serious > attempt to look at other things. It might help if you elaborated on what thes

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Responsible Software Licensing

2005-12-17 Thread Matt Garrish
wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On 16 Dec 2005 16:52:43 -0800, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > physocopic drugs! > Please do us all the favour of taking a basic literacy course. You aren't even close half the time, which just confirms you're a halfwit. Matt -- http://mai

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-23 Thread Matt Garrish
"Alan Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > /kooks/alanconnor.shtml Yeah, that pretty much sums it up... Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-23 Thread Matt Garrish
"David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Matt Garrish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>A right is a scope of authority. That is, a sphere within which one

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-23 Thread Matt Garrish
"David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Matt Garrish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> I'd be interested in hearing what you think a right is? > >A right

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-23 Thread Matt Garrish
"David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> David claimed that everyone had a right to do whatever they wanted >> with their property. This is simply false throughout most of the

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-15 Thread Matt Garrish
"John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Matt Garrish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Eventually the hope is that your OS and browser >> will become the only means of accessing the internet. And if your OS >

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-15 Thread Matt Garrish
"Tim Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "Jeroen Wenting" wrote: >> >>Microsoft isn't evil, they're not a monopoly either. >>If they were a monopoly they'd have 100% of the market and there'd be no >>other software manufacturers at all. > > This is wrong. The

Re: Microsoft Hatred FAQ

2005-10-15 Thread Matt Garrish
"Michael Heiming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > In comp.os.linux.misc John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> In comp.os.linux.misc John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-09 Thread Matt Garrish
"Roedy Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your post brings up a meta-issue. How long should posts be? > I note several schools of thought. > Your post brings up a usenetiquette issue. Why do you think that perl/python/java/c people are interested in your per

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Matt Garrish
"John Bokma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen wrote: >> >>> But trying to keep your email world into a pure text-based >>> no-formatting-whatsoever world, that's a fantasy bubble tha

Re: check html file size

2005-10-04 Thread Matt Garrish
"Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > would anyone like to translate the following perl script to Python or > Scheme (scsh)? Even if you weren't an incredibly offensive and petulant poster, what makes you think anyone would write a script from you? Matt --

Re: [OT] A Moronicity of Guido van Rossum

2005-10-02 Thread Matt Garrish
"Lucas Raab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Xah Lee wrote: > > [snip] > >>(they tried, with their limited implementation of lambda and >> shun it like a plaque) > > Can't say I've heard that expression before... > Burns: I'm afraid it's not that simple. As punishm

Re: a new Perl/Python a day

2005-01-09 Thread Matt Garrish
"Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > i'm starting a yahoo group for learning python. Each day, a tip of > python will be shown, with the perl equivalent. For those of you > perlers who always wanted to learn python, this is suitable. (i started > it because i al

Re: unicode support

2005-01-09 Thread Matt Garrish
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # python supports unicode in source code by putting a coding declaration # as the first line. print "look chinese chars: ?" # Note, however, identifiers cannot use unicode chars. # e.g. you cannot define a fu