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On 2007-06-12 08:15, Thomas F. Burdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 11, 11:36 pm, Tim Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Jun 11, 8:02 am, Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > On Jun 11, 2:42 am, Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTEC
On Jun 11, 11:36 pm, Tim Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 11, 8:02 am, Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Jun 11, 2:42 am, Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > It is possible to write maintainable Perl.
>
> > Interesting (spoken in the tone of someone hearing ab
Twisted schrieb:
> On Jun 11, 5:36 pm, Tim Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I think it's just obvious that this is the case. What would *stop*
>> you writing maintainable Perl?
>
> For starters, the fact that there are about six zillion obscure
> operators represented by punctuation marks,
On Jun 11, 8:57 pm, Patricia Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wrote a Perl script to process logic analyzer traces for some hardware
> engineers. While I was out of the office, they found they needed to
> process a new record type. They didn't want to delay their work until I
> got back, and
On Jun 11, 5:36 pm, Tim Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think it's just obvious that this is the case. What would *stop*
> you writing maintainable Perl?
For starters, the fact that there are about six zillion obscure
operators represented by punctuation marks, instead of a dozen or so.
M
Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> I think it's just obvious that this is the case. What would *stop*
> you writing maintainable Perl?
A grudge against humanity, usually
-dan
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Twisted wrote:
> On Jun 11, 2:42 am, Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It is possible to write maintainable Perl.
>
> Interesting (spoken in the tone of someone hearing about a purported
> sighting of Bigfoot, or maybe a UFO).
>
> Still, extraordinary claims require extraordinary ev
On Jun 11, 8:02 am, Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Jun 11, 2:42 am, Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > It is possible to write maintainable Perl.
>
> Interesting (spoken in the tone of someone hearing about a purported
> sighting of Bigfoot, or maybe a UFO).
>
I think it's
Twisted schrieb:
> On Jun 11, 2:42 am, Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It is possible to write maintainable Perl.
>
> Interesting (spoken in the tone of someone hearing about a purported
> sighting of Bigfoot, or maybe a UFO).
>
> Still, extraordinary claims require extraordinary
On Jun 11, 2:42 am, Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is possible to write maintainable Perl.
Interesting (spoken in the tone of someone hearing about a purported
sighting of Bigfoot, or maybe a UFO).
Still, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. (And no, a
fuzzy pic
Twisted schrieb:
> After all, you can't really take a language seriously if
> it's either impossible to write unmaintainable code in it
That's true for any language.
Substitute "not straightforward" for "impossible", and you have a
condition that actually distinguishes languages.
> OR impossibl
On Jun 10, 8:50 pm, "BCB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wholeheartedly agree, and did not mean to imply as much in my original
> post, in which my intent was to emphasize the fact that, until you learn the
> language, a J program /does/ resemble line noise! :-)
Eh. This isn't right. The whole dis
>
> Neither APL nor Snobol nor J are toy or joke languages
I wholeheartedly agree, and did not mean to imply as much in my original
post, in which my intent was to emphasize the fact that, until you learn the
language, a J program /does/ resemble line noise! :-)
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On Jun 10, 3:11 pm, Larry Elmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Twisted wrote:
> > On Jun 9, 8:21 pm, "BCB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> "Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>
> >>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >>> On Jun 9, 6:49 am, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In particular,
Twisted wrote:
>> Oh come on! Toy languages (such as any set of editor commands) and
>> joke languages (ala Intercal) don't count, even if they are
>> technically Turing-complete. ;)
>>
>> Nor does anything that was designed for the every-character-at-a-
>> premium punch-card era, particularly if i
Twisted wrote:
> On Jun 9, 8:21 pm, "BCB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> "Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>> On Jun 9, 6:49 am, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In particular, Perl code looks more like line
> noise than like code from any k
On Jun 9, 8:21 pm, "BCB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > On Jun 9, 6:49 am, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > In particular, Perl code looks more like line
> >> > noise than like code from any known programming la
"Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Jun 9, 6:49 am, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > In particular, Perl code looks more like line
>> > noise than like code from any known programming language. ;))
>>
>> Hmm - I know of APL and SNOBOL.
>>
>> --
>> Le
On Jun 9, 6:49 am, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In particular, Perl code looks more like line
> > noise than like code from any known programming language. ;))
>
> Hmm - I know of APL and SNOBOL.
>
> --
> Lew
TECO editor commands. I don't have direct experience with TECO, but
I've heard tha
Twisted wrote:
> On Jun 8, 7:30 pm, "Jürgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> [nothing relevant to Perl]
>
> Perl?? Perl is even less relevant to Java than the original post,
> which admittedly has some connection to pretty much all programming
> languages. (Perl,
On Jun 8, 7:30 pm, "Jürgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> [nothing relevant to Perl]
Perl?? Perl is even less relevant to Java than the original post,
which admittedly has some connection to pretty much all programming
languages. (Perl, on the other hand, has no c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[nothing relevant to Perl]
Oh no, it is back.
Did your ISP finally cancel your old account or why are you switching to a
new address?
Don't try to disguise yourself. Your 'contributions' can easily be
identified no matter what pseudonym you are using.
***PLONK AGAIN***
How Purely Nested Notation Limits The Language's Utility
[The full HTML formatted article is available at:
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/notations.html
]
2007-05-03
There is a common complain by programers about lisp's notation, of
nested parenthesis, being unnatural or difficult to re
Prefix, Infix, Postfix notations in Mathematica
2000-02-21, 2007-05
[In the following essay, I discuss prefix, infix, postfix notations
and Mathematica's syntax for them. The full HTML formatted article is
available at:
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/notations.html
]
THE HEAD OF EXPRESS
Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Anyway, are there any libraries to do hardware accelerated vector graphics
>in Perl, Python, Lisp, Java or any functional language (except OCaml and F#
>and excluding WPF and Silverlight)?
http://www.cairographics.org/bindings/
That covers all the languages
> "Jon" == Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jon> Anyway, are there any libraries to do hardware accelerated
Jon> vector graphics in Perl, Python, Lisp, Java or any functional
Jon> language (except OCaml and F# and excluding WPF and
Jon> Silverlight)?
I guess the OpenGL binding f
On Tue, 29 May 2007, Jon Harrop wrote:
> Anyway, are there any libraries to do hardware accelerated vector graphics
> in Perl, Python, Lisp, Java or any functional language (except OCaml and F#
> and excluding WPF and Silverlight)?
I believe there are OpenGL bindings for quite many languages, her
Markus E Leypold wrote:
> The answer to your question is very simple: Xah Lee is a troll.
In this context, I believe he is marketing/advertising himself as a
consultant and some kind of vampiric man-whore according to this page:
http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/Personal_dir/xah.html
"... I'm tech
> On 2007-05-23, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully
>> Functional Notations
>>
>> Xah Lee, 2006-03-15
>
> Xah, why do you post year-old essays to newsgroups that couldn't care
> less
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On 2007-05-23, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully
> Functional Notations
>
> Xah Lee, 2006-03-15
Xah, why do you post year-old essays to newsgroups that c
The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully
Functional Notations
Xah Lee, 2006-03-15
[This articles explains away the confusion of common terms for
notation systems used in computer languages: prefix, infix, postfix,
algebraic, functional. These notation's relation t
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