Re: New Science Discovery: Perl Detractors Remain Idiots After A Decade

2012-03-12 Thread Raymond Wiker
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz writes: > In , on 03/12/2012 >at 11:27 AM, Albert van der Horst said: > >>You're confused. > > No, s/h/it is just an acephalic troll with delusions of adequacy. Another way to put it is to say that Xah is a legend in his own mind. -- http://mail.python.or

Re: English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively

2011-05-18 Thread Raymond Wiker
Hans Georg Schaathun writes: > ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.lang.python.] > On Wed, 18 May 2011 21:09:15 +0200, Raymond Wiker >wrote: > : > In the sense that the tree itself is a stack, yes. But if we > : > consider the tree (or one of its branches

Re: English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively

2011-05-18 Thread Raymond Wiker
Hans Georg Schaathun writes: > ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.lang.python.] > On Wed, 18 May 2011 20:20:01 +0200, Raymond Wiker >wrote: > : I don't think anybody mentioned *binary* trees. The context was > : directory traversal, in which cas

Re: English Idiom in Unix: Directory Recursively

2011-05-18 Thread Raymond Wiker
Hans Georg Schaathun writes: > ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.lang.python.] > On 18 May 2011 09:16:26 -0700, Thomas A. Russ >wrote: > : Well, unless you have a tree with backpointers, you have to keep the > : entire parent chain of nodes visited. Otherwise, you won't be able to > : fi

Re: multi-core software

2009-06-07 Thread Raymond Wiker
Roedy Green writes: > On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 18:15:00 + (UTC), Kaz Kylheku > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who > said : > >>Even for problems where it appears trivial, there can be hidden >>issues, like false cache coherency communication where no actual >>sharing is taking place. O

Re: Why not Ruby?

2009-01-01 Thread Raymond Wiker
Richard Riley writes: > Tamas K Papp writes: > >> On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:28:08 +0100, Richard Riley wrote: >> >>> posts controversial but always interesting. His ELisp tutorial is far >>> and away better than anything else out there for the programmer moving >>> to Elisp IMO. He backs up his poi