along
with its 40 or so methods and other things.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/File.html (local copy)
---
to be continued...
This is part of an installment of the article
“What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities”
by Xah Lee, 20050128. The full text is at
http://xahle
Here's the belated Java solution.
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.lang.Math;
class math {
public static List range(double n) {
return range(1,n,1);
}
public static List range(double n, double m) {
return range(n,m,1);
}
public s
Here's the next tree functions exercise in Python, Perl, Java. Other
language solutions welcome.
http://xahlee.org/tree/tree.html
-
Table('exprString', [iMax]) generates a list of iMax copies of value
of
eval('exprString'), and returns the refence to the list. i.e.
[ev
if i have
mytext.replace(a,b)
how to find out many many occurances has been replaced?
Xah
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The Perl version of the Tree function is posted. It's a bit long.
Please see the code here:
http://xahlee.org/tree/Table.html
the choice of having a string as the first argument to Table is a bit
awkward in Perl. Possibly i'll have to rewrite it so that the first
argument is a function instead, wh
how can i define a function with variable parameters? For example,
f(a) would return [a]
f(a,b) would return [a,b]
f(a,b,...) would return [a,b,...]
One solution is of course to make the argument as a list. i.e.
f([a,b,...])
but are there other solutions?
Xah
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Python documentation,
http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/typesfunctions.html
-
2.3.10.3 Functions
Function objects are created by function definitions. The only
operation on a function object is to call it: func(argument-list).
There are really two flavors of function objects: buil
i wanted to find out if Python supports eval. e.g.
somecode='3+4'
print eval(somecode) # prints 7
in the 14 hundred pages of python doc, where am i supposed to find this
info?
Xah
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Apparently i tried it before posting
eval '3'
and got misleading errors because i forgot the parenthesis...
This is a easy one to find in the doc...
The unhelpful doc organization and past experiences confounded this
case.
Thanks.
Xah
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> what is wrong with python doc
> http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/typesfunctions.html
the problem is that the page essentially says nothing. Nothing that is
relevant to programing, and such nothingness occupies a significant
portion of the python doc. (at least a quarter) It is like reading a
manu
[this post is a excerpt from
The Modernization of Emacs, Xah Lee, 2006-04 at
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html
]
The Modernization of Emacs
THE PROBLEM
Emacs is a great editor. It is perhaps the most powerful and most
versatile text editor. And
Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about The Modernization of
Emacs.
They are slightly lengthy, so i've separated each item per post. The
whole article can be found at
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html
Q: The Terminology “buffer” and “keybinding” is good as they are.
Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about The Modernization of
Emacs.
They are slightly lengthy, so i've separated each item per post. The
whole article can be found at
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html
Q: Why should emacs want to be popular and why should emacs change
Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about The Modernization of
Emacs.
They are slightly lengthy, so i've separated each item per post. The
whole article can be found at
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html
Q: Emacs's ways are technically superior. It should not change.
A:
Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about The Modernization of
Emacs.
They are slightly lengthy, so i've separated each item per post. The
whole article can be found at
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html
Q: Aquamacs already does what you want.
A: Aquamacs is a emacs var
About a month ago, i posted a message about modernization of emacs. I
enlisted several items that i think emacs should adapt.
Today I added another section to the frequestly asked questions.
The new section is pasted below. The full article can be found at
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.htm
In this article, i explain how the use of bit masks is a hack in many
imperative languages.
Often, a function will need to take many True/False parameters. For
example, suppose i have a function that can draw a rainbow, and each
color of the rainbow can be turned on or off individually. My functio
Today, a motherfucker Christophe Rhodes (aka Xof in irc://chat.freenode.net/lisp
) kicked banned me.
Here's the few relevant excerpt. (full, unedited excerpt will be
published if there is a public interest)
Begin excerpt:
[5:31am] k, here is a simple problem but rather tedious to do
it correctly
Xah Lee wrote:
«
...
“Ignorance And Intolerance In Online Computing Communities”
http://xahlee.org/Netiquette_dir/ignorance_intolerance.html
... As i have indicated in my post, it is non-trivial to implement a
function that returns the positive angle of a vector
»
I have now coded this. I
Nameless wrote:
«
Python has readable syntax, a huge library, and bindings for what
seems like every major in linux. Perl has CPAN. It seems with those
languages if you want to do something all you have to do is import
functionality from a library someone had written and use that.
In lisp you'd ha
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
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
Why Emacs's Keyboard Shortcuts Are Painful
Xah Lee, 2007-07
A important aspect in designing keyboard shortcuts is to have keyboard
shortcuts for those most frequently used commands, and, the most
frequently used commands should have most easily-pressed keystrokes.
For example, they should
The following article a extended version of previous post.
A HTML version can be found at
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_kb_shortcuts_pain.html
---
WHY EMACS'S KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ARE PAINFUL
Xah Lee, 2007-07
A important aspect in designing a keyboard shortcu
The following is a FAQ from emacs modernization
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html
Q: Emacs's undo is superior, because the prevalent Undo/Redo system
actually loss info.
A: Emac's undo is very confusing and does not have a Redo command. To
redo after a undo, people are told to type somet
Dear computing comrades,
Today, i'd like to show you a piece of literature written by a eminent
mathematician Edsger W Dijkstra.
Here's 2 interesting quote from his letter:
“The prevaling attitude was reflected in the creation of two literary
figures — admittedly of rather poor literature, but n
2007-08-24
Steve Holden wrote:
«It's already well-established that there's no point flamingXahLee, as
he's pretty much an output-only source. See any responses from him on
this thread?»
Hum? so you want to dance?
FYI, i have made a second post to this thread. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/
sorting a matrix (i.e. list of lists) is rather common. With
this function, i can have a single interface to deal with any list
(including list of lists).
It is ideal, that a language's function for sort actually are of this
generality.
(See “What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language”, Xah Lee,
hi, just a quick reply.
You are right, the python version i have is really terrible.
I'll look at your solution and possibly reply later.
Thanks for your code. It's great!
Xah
On Aug 29, 9:40 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:47:27 -0700,XahLeewr
If i have a nested list, where the atoms are unicode strings, e.g.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
ttt=[[u"→",u"↑"], [u"αβγ"],...]
print ttt
how can i print it without getting the u'\u1234' notation?
i.e. i want it print just like this: [[u"→"], ...]
I can of course write a loop then for each string use
On Sep 10, 8:12 am, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Xah Lee wrote:
If i have a nested list, where the atoms are unicode strings, e.g.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
ttt=[[u"→",u"↑"], [u"αβγ"],...]
print ttt
how can i print it without getting the u'\u
Google groups seems to be stripping my quotation markslately.
Here's a retry to post my previous message.
------
Xah Lee wrote:
If i have a nested list, where the atoms are unicode strings, e.g.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
tt
On Sep 10, 5:25 am, Harshad Modi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello ,
> I make one function for encoding latin1 to utf-8. but i think it is
> not work proper.
> plz guide me.
Hi, what you want is here, including complete code:
Converting a File's "Character Set" / Encoding
http://xahlee.org/perl
This post is about some notes and corrections to a online article
regarding unicod and python.
--
by happenstance i was reading:
Unicode HOWTO
http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode
Here's some problems i see:
・ No conspicuous authorship. (however, oddly, it has a conspicuous
ackno
J. Cliff Dyer wrote:
" ...UCS-2, for example, is a fixed width, 2-byte encoding that can
handle any unicode code point up to 0x, but cannot handle the 3
and 4 byte extension sets. "
I was going to reply to say that this is a good point. But on my way i
looked up wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia
On Sep 11, Xah Lee wrote:
i was browsinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer_shells
quite fucking ridiculous that it contains Python shell and Ruby shell,
and, there's no mentioning of scsh.
Fuck the schemer morons.
someone please add scsh there.
--
2007-
On Java's Interface
Xah Lee, 20050223
In Java the language, there's this a keyword “interface”.
In a functional language, a function can be specified by its name and
parameter specs. For example:
f(3)
f(3, [9,2])
f("some string")
are usage examples of 3 functions all havin
What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities
Xah Lee, 20050128
Classes, Methods, Objects
In computer languages, often a function definition looks like this:
subroutine f (x1, x2, ...) {
variables ...
do this or that
}
In advanced languages such as LISP family, it is not uncommon to
d
REQUIREMENTS FOR A VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR 2010
Xah Lee, 2007-03-16
In this essay, i give a list of requirements that i think is necessary
for a software system for creating scientific visualization for the
next decade (2007-2017).
(for a HTML version with images, please see
http
Laziness, Perl, and Larry Wall
Xah Lee, 20021124
In the unix community there's quite a large confusion and wishful
thinking about the word laziness. In this post, i'd like to make some
clarifications.
American Heritage Dictionary third edition defines laziness as:
“Resistant to work o
Dear Ken,
I want to thank you for your spirit in supporting and leading the lisp
community, in spreading lisp the language both in what you have done
technically as well as evangelization, as well as the love and
knowledge attitude towards newsgroup communities in general, in part
thru your numero
2007-03-29
Dear tech geekers,
In a couple of posts in the past year i have crossed-posted (e.g.
recently “What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities”, “is laziness a
programer's virtue?”, “On Java's Interface (the meaning of interface
in computer programing)” ), there are a some controversy, and lot
Elisp Tutorial: HTML Syntax Coloring Code Block
Xah Lee, 2007-10
This page shows a example of writing a emacs lisp function that
process a block of text to syntax color it by HTML tags. If you don't
know elisp, first take a gander at Emacs Lisp Basics.
HTML version with color and links
When i first heard about distributed revision control system about 2
years ago, i heard of Darcs, which is written in Haskell. I was hugely
excited, thinking about the functional programing i love, and the no-
side effect pure system i idolize, and the technology of human animal
i rapture in daily.
TeX, in my opinion, has done massive damage to the computing world.
i have written on this variously in emails. No coherent argument, but
the basic thoughts are here:
http://xahlee.org/cmaci/notation/TeX_pestilence.html
it's slightly repeatitous there. But i think i might summarize in gist
the fe
Text Processing with Emacs Lisp
Xah Lee, 2007-10-29
This page gives a outline of how to use emacs lisp to do text
processing, using a specific real-world problem as example. If you
don't know elisp, first take a gander at Emacs Lisp Basics.
HTML version with links and colors is at:
... continued from previous post.
PS I'm cross-posting this post to perl and python groups because i
find that it being a little know fact that emacs lisp's power in the
area of text processing, are far beyond Perl (or Python).
... i worked as a professional perl programer since 1998. I started t
Xah Lee wrote in 2006-12-22:
> Of Interest:
>
> Introduction to 3D Graphics Programing
> http://xahlee.org/3d/index.html
Folks, i have expanded my tutorial to several pages in the past nearly
two months, and thank you very much for those who have given
encouragement.
I had plans to
Every few months, i receive a hearty letter about how well people
agree with my criticism of Python's docs.
(see
http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_doc_index.html
)
Here's one received this week:
--
Hello,
I landed on your website's comments about the Python doc
welcome.
Xah
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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Python
# © 2006-04 by Xah Lee, ∑ http://xahlee.org/, 2006-04
# Given a webite gallery of photos with hundreds of photos, i want to
generate a thumbnail page so that viewers can get a bird's eye's v
The Python code is archived at:
http://xahlee.org/perl-python/tn_gen.html
Xah
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Xah Lee wrote:
> The following is a program to generate thumbnail images for a website.
> Useful, if you want to do that.
>
> It is used to generate the thumb
Criticism versus Constructive Criticism
Xah Lee, 2003-01
A lot intelligent people are rather confused about criticism,
especially in our “free-speech” free-for-all internet age. When
they say “constructive criticisms are welcome” they mostly mean
“bitching and complaints not welcome”. Rarely do
Dear John Bokma,
This is a public notice that what you are trying to do is getting close
to harrassment from the law's perspective.
Thanks.
Xah
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John Bokma wrote:
> Eli Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Oh, God, not another one.
>
> Instead
What Languages to Hate
Xah Lee, 20020718
Dear lisp comrades and other concerned parties,
First, all languages have equal rights. Do not belittle other languages
just because YOUR favorite language is a bit better in this aspect or
that. Different people have different ideas and manners of
Addendum:
Recently I ran into this egregious propaganda:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/multimedia/video/obp/IntroducingPython.mpg
folks, take a look. This is a significant part how things move in the
computing community.
Xah
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Xah Lee wrote:
> W
Python, Lambda, and Guido van Rossum
Xah Lee, 2006-05-05
In this post, i'd like to deconstruct one of Guido's recent blog about
lambda in Python.
In Guido's blog written in 2006-02-10 at
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358
is first of all, the title “Languag
i've long time been interested in algorithmic mathematical art. That
is, mathematical or algorithmic visual art works that are generated by
computer such that the program's source code reflects the algorithmic
essence of the visual quality in the art work. (for detail, see
Algorithmic Mathematical
Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code
Xah Lee, 2006-05-13
In coding a computer program, there's often the choices of tabs or
spaces for code indentation. There is a large amount of confusion about
which is better. It has become what's known as “religious war” —
a heated fight over trivi
Software Needs Philosophers
by Steve Yegge, 2006-04-15.
Software needs philosophers.
This thought has been nagging at me for a year now, and recently it's
been growing like a tumor. One that plenty of folks on the 'net would
love to see kill me.
People don't put much stock in philosophers these
o replace all spaces to tabs. But
also, many unix languages contains a so-called construct of
“heredoc” as a mean to embed a literal block of text. For example,
here's a PHP construct of heredoc:
$novelText = <<http://xahlee.org/
Xah Lee wrote:
> Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code
>
I'm sorry to trouble everyone. But as you might know, due to my
controversial writings and style, recently John Bokma lobbied people to
complaint to my web hosting provider. After exchanging a few emails, my
web hosting provider sent me a 30-day account cancellation notice last
Friday.
I'm not sur
comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.ruby
Here's a interesting toy problem posted by Drew Krause to
comp.lang.lisp:
On Jan 16, 2:29 pm, Drew Krause wrote [paraphrased a bit]:
OK, I want to create a nested list in Lisp (always of
On Jan 17, 9:16 am, Xah Lee wrote:
> Here's a interesting toy problem posted by Drew Krause to
> comp.lang.lisp:
> ...
The code in my previous elisp code got a bump. It should be:
(defun read-lines (file)
"Return a list of lines in FILE."
(with-temp-buffer
(i
On Jan 17, 9:34 am, Xah Lee wrote:
> The code in my previous elisp code got a bump. It should be:
> ...
> • A Ruby Illustration of Lisp Problems
> http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/lisp_problems_by_ruby.html
Sorry again. More correction:
(defun read-lines (file)
"Retur
Xah Lee wrote:
> • A Ruby Illustration of Lisp Problems
> http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/lisp_problems_by_ruby.html
On Jan 17, 12:30 pm, André Thieme wrote:
> In the Lisp style Clojure for example one does exactly the same as
> Jillian James (JJ) did in Ruby:
> (m
a idiot wrote:
> Yes, Jillian also has nested maps:
the issue here, is not about whether Ruby has nested map or not. It is
about illustrating a lisp problem. In particular, nested syntax
impedes the functional programing paradigm of function chaining.
• A Ruby Illustration of Lisp Problems
ht
On Jan 17, 10:25 am, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> > [[int(x) for x in line.split()] for line in open("blob.txt")]
Nice (python code).
Few comments:
• the above code is borderline of atypical. e.g. it is not a average
python code would produce or one'd seen in corporate python code.
• voodoo like t
On Jan 18, 8:41 am, Eric wrote:
> Coming from a perl background I'm new to the Python world. I need to
> read a list of values, send each value to an external program and
> capture and act on the output of that program. Reading and parsing the
> initial values is not a problem but I can't seem to
On Jan 19, 4:49 pm, "Rhodri James"
wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:31:15 -, Xah Lee wrote:
> > On Jan 17, 10:25 am, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> >> > [[int(x) for x in line.split()] for line in open("blob.txt")]
>
> > Nice (python code).
>
&
On Jan 19, 11:17 pm, alex23 wrote:
...
Hi Daniel Weinreb,
Xah wrote:
> • A Ruby Illustration of Lisp Problems
> http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/lisp_problems_by_ruby.html
Daniel Weinreb wrote:
> Xah Lee: Elisp is an interesting choice. But without converting the
> strings
Xah Lee wrote:
> > consider code produced by corporations, as opposed to with respect to
> > some academic or philsophical logical analysis. Looked in another way,
> > consider if we can compile stat of all existing pyhton code used in
> > real world, you'll find t
On Jan 20, 7:51 pm, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Rhodri James wrote:
> > Computer languages are not human languages, but computer language
> > constructs do attempt to map onto human language constructs to
> > provide some measure of comprehensibility. Where a construct like
> > list comprehension maps v
Rhodri James wrote:
> I recommend spending less time being certain that you are correct
> without seeking evidence
I don't concur.
For instance, when you are talking to a bunch of kids, you have to be
sure of yourself, else they run all over you, even if they didn't mean
to be rude.
Also, one's
Rhodri James wrote:
> *plonk*
Please see:
• Killfile Considered Harmful
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/kill_file_harmful.html
plain text version follows
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Killfile Considered Harmful
Xah Lee, 2000-02-26
In newsgroups, killfile is a playful word mean
recently, as you might have noted by a previous post of mine, that
American Mathematical Society published a series of articles on formal
proofs in 2008 November. See: http://www.ams.org/notices/200811/ The
articles are:
• Formal Proof by Thomas Hales
• Formal Proof — The Four-Color Theorem by G
ok, i've been reading these Ocaml tutorials in the past few days:
intro to ocaml, from official site
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual003.html
“Objective CAML Tutorial”, most cited tutorial on the web
http://www.ocaml-tutorial.org/
None of them are perfect, but much better than h
For those of you using emacs, here's the elisp code that allows you to
syntax color computer language source code in your blog or website.
http://xahlee.org/emacs/elisp_htmlize.html
to comment, here:
http://xahlee.blogspot.com/2009/01/dehtmlize-source-code-in-emacs-lisp.html
Xah
∑ http://xahle
Language, Purity, Cult, and Deception
Xah Lee, 2009-01-24
[this essay is roughly a 10 years personal retrospect of some
languages, in particular Scheme and Haskell.]
I learned far more Ocaml in the past 2 days than the fucking 2 months
i tried to learn Haskell, with 10 years of “I WANT TO
Addendum:
The above is not a terrible insight, but i suppose it should be useful
for some application. Today, there's huge number of languages, each
screaming ME! To name a few that are talked about by geekers, there's
Arc, Clojure, Scalar, F#, Erlang, Ruby, Groovy, Python 3, Perl6. (for
a big lis
s.caltech.edu/courses/cs134/cs134b/book.pdf
Thanks. Am still reading your chapter 1 yet. Will check those out
later.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
On Jan 23, 4:36 pm, Jon Harrop wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > ok, i've been reading these Ocaml tutorials in the past few days:
>
>
Function Application is not Currying
Xah Lee, 2009-01-28
In Jon Harrop's book Ocaml for Scientist at
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/chapter1.html
It says:
Currying
A curried function is a function which returns a function as its
result.
LOL. Th
oftware used by lots of people?
-
On Feb 4, 10:36 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
yes and no. The problem is that such opinion is not a scientific
opinion. It can't be verified or denied.
Any dynamic lang, such as Python, PHP, Ruby, Mathematica can be said
the same thing. And, prob mor
Xah Lee wrote:
> ...
> if you want software engineering books, i suggest try some books that
> are based on statistical survey, as opposed to some dignitary's
> “opinion” or current fashion & trends that comes with a jargon. These
> type of books are a dime a dozen, ever
syntax that represent a tree purely [was X#]
On Jan 21, 3:13 am, Pascal Costanza wrote:
> LOL: http://www.xsharp.org/samples/
Today, i was nosing about some blogs, which made me come to:
http://blog.fogus.me/2009/02/06/yegge-clojure-arc-and-lolita-or-days-of-future-past
in which he wrote: «Now
On Feb 12, 7:28 am, Xah Lee wrote:
> lisp machine keyboards.
>
> • Knite keyboard. I think this is one of the
> earlist.http://world.std.com/~jdostale/kbd/Knight.html
>
> • Symbolics earlier style keyboard (PN 364000), by Peter
> Painehttp://www.asl.dsl.pipex.com/sy
herald: Python surpasses Perl in popularity!
According to
“TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2008” at
http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
it seems that Python has surpassed Perl in popularity this month!
Good for Python!
From my own personal experience in the pro
comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.java.programmer
2008-11-25
Recently, Steve Yegge implemented Javascript in Emacs lisp, and
compared the 2 languages.
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/
http://code.google.com/p/ejacs/
One of his point is about emac
On Nov 26, 5:45 am, Joshua Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i cannot fathom what could possibly be difficult of
> > introducing or implementing a namespace mechanism into a language.
>
> Namespaces go to the very core of a language, name resolution.
> Retroactively adding such a feature is ex
nked. You'll
get a survey of today's languages, what they are, what they do, their
nature, their field, and where the landscape of languages might be
tomorrow.
plain text version follows.
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Back to Computing and Its People.
Proliferation of Computing Language
Xah Lee wrote:
> > i cannot fathom what could possibly be difficult of
> > introducing or implementing a namespace mechanism into a language. I
> > do not understand, why so many languages that lacks so much needed
> > namespace for so long? If it is a social probl
On Nov 26, 8:42 am, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> XahLeewrote:
> >> The IT community has enough trouble getting a few ISPs to upgrade their
> >> DNS software. How are you going to get millions of general users to
> >> upgrade?
>
> > alright, that's speaks for Javascript.
>
> > But how
Xah Lee wrote:
> i cannot fathom what could possibly be difficult of
> introducing or implementing a namespace mechanism into a language.
Joshua Cranmer wrote:
>> Namespaces go to the very core of a language, name resolution.
>> Retroactively adding such a feature is extremely
dumb and blind can
all still lead a happy and fruitful life.
There is no crisis!
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
On Nov 26, 1:32 pm, Kaz Kylheku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-11-26, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.functional,comp.la
On Nov 26, 4:57 pm, Kaz Kylheku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-11-26, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Can you see, how you latched your personal beef about anti software
> > crisis philosophy into this no namespace thread?
>
> I did no such thi
Great to see quality post from real expert once in a while. Thanks!
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
On Nov 29, 9:03 am, Stephane CHAZELAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> There's a common confusion in this in the nature of /bin/sh.
> There's no standard (neither POSIX nor Unix) that specifies that
> /b
Wolfram Research's Mathematica Version 7 has just been released.
See:
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html
Among it's marketing material, it has a section on how mathematica
compares to competitors.
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/analysis/
And on this page, there
On Nov 30, 7:30 pm, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wolfram Research's Mathematica Version 7 has just been released.
>
> See: http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html
>
> Among it's marketing material, it has a section on how mathematica
2008-12-01
On Dec 1, 4:06 pm, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > And on this page, there are sections where Mathematica is compared to
> > programing langs, such as C, C++, Java, and research langs Lisp,
> > ML, ..., and scripting langs Python,
On Dec 2, 12:21 pm, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > LOL Jon. r u trying to get me to do otimization for you free?
>
> These are professional software development forums, not some script-
> kiddie cellphone-based chat room. "r" is spel
On Dec 2, 5:13 pm, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> XahLeewrote:
> > On Dec 1, 4:06 pm, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Mathematica is a whopping 700,000 times slower!
>
> > LOL Jon. r u trying to get me to do otimization for you free?
>
> > how about pay me $5 thru paypal? I'm pr
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