Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-11-30 Thread Xah Lee
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

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-02 Thread Xah Lee
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,

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-02 Thread Xah Lee
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

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-02 Thread Xah Lee
clicked your url in Safari and it says “Warning: Visiting this site > > may harm your computer”. Apparantly, your site set browsers to auto > > download “http ://onlinestat. cn /forum/ sploits/ test.pdf”. What's up > > with that? > > Some HTML files were altered at our ISP's end. I have uploaded replacements. > Thanks for pointing this out. you've been hacked and didn't even know it. LOL. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-03 Thread Xah Lee
me would be a mistake. Come, fly $5 to my paypal account. Let the challenge begin. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-03 Thread Xah Lee
op's original > code, posting the results to this thread. Then, I would like you to > post your code with the timing results to this thread as well. > > By Dr. Harrop's original code, I specifically mean the code he posted > to this thread. I've pasted it bel

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-03 Thread Xah Lee
On Dec 3, 4:22 pm, "Thomas M. Hermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 3, 5:26 pm, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Agreed. My paypal address is “xah @@@ xahlee.org”. (replace the triple > > @ to single one.) Once you paid thru paypa

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-04 Thread Xah Lee
detail exactly what speed is required in some precise terms. If i agree to do it, spec satisfaction is guaranteed or your money back. PS Thanks Thomas M Hermann. It was fun. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-05 Thread Xah Lee
On Dec 4, 6:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For the interested, with MMA 6, on a Pentium 4 3.8Ghz: > > The code that Jon posted: > > Timing[Export["image-jon.pgm", [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Main[2, 100, 4]]] > {80.565, "image-jon.pgm"} > > The code that

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-07 Thread Xah Lee
's claim that it must be some 70 times slower or some “5 orders of magnituted slower”). However, to do so will take me half a day or a day of coding. Come fly $300 to my paypal account, then we'll talk. Money back guaranteed, as i said before. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-08 Thread Xah Lee
On Dec 8, 5:10 am, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > > For those interested in this Mathematica problem, i've now cleaned up > > the essay with additional comments here: > > > • A Mathematica Optimization Problem > >

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-08 Thread Xah Lee
2008-12-08 Xah Lee wrote: > > Also, in this discussion, thanks to Thomas M Hermann's $20 offered to > > me for my challenge to you, that i have taken the time to show working > > code that demonstrate many problems in your code. A moron, wrote: > You failed the cha

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-08 Thread Xah Lee
Dear George Neuner, Xah Lee wrote: > >The phenomenon of creating code that are inefficient is proportional > >to the highlevelness or power of the lang. In general, the higher > >level of the lang, the less possible it is actually to produce a code > >that is as efficie

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-09 Thread Xah Lee
On Dec 8, 4:56 pm, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > > A moron, wrote: > > > You failed the challenge that you were given. > > > you didn't give me a challenge. > > Thomas gave you the challenge: > > "What I want in

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-09 Thread Xah Lee
On Dec 8, 4:56 pm, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > > A moron, wrote: > > > You failed the challenge that you were given. > > > you didn't give me a challenge. > > Thomas gave you the challenge: > > "What I want in

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-09 Thread Xah Lee
code in the context of speed is a major blunder. His denial makes him a stubborn moron. Reference: • A Mathematica Optimization Problem http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/Mathematica_optimization.html Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-09 Thread Xah Lee
ks and url on OCml/f#, so he took out this piece of Mathematica to bad mouth it and bait. He ignored my paypal challenge, but it so happens that someone else paid me $20 to show a better code, and in the showdown, Jon went defensive that just make him looking like a major idiot. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-09 Thread Xah Lee
ial problems and, in particular, > does not affect the problem you were trying to solve. solve your mom? Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

looking up function's doc in emacs

2008-12-10 Thread Xah Lee
nctionName. Both of which i have a elisp command with a shortcut that let me jump to the doc) Thanks. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-10 Thread Xah Lee
Xah Lee wrote: > > Let's say for example, we want to write a function that takes a vector > > (of linear algebra), and return a vector in the same direction but > > with length 1. In linear algebar terminology, the new vector is called > > the “normalized” vector of

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-10 Thread Xah Lee
Xah Lee wrote: > > For those of you who don't know linear algebra but knows coding, this > > means, we want a function whose input is a list of 3 elements say > > {x,y,z}, and output is also a list of 3 elements, say {a,b,c}, with > > the condition that > > &g

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-10 Thread Xah Lee
On Dec 10, 2:47 pm, John W Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > > In lisp, python, perl, etc, you'll have 10 or so lines. In C or Java, > > you'll have 50 or hundreds lines. > > C: > > #include > #include > > void normal(i

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-11 Thread Xah Lee
On Dec 11, 12:32 am, Gerard flanagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > > On Dec 10, 2:47 pm, John W Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Xah Lee wrote: > >>> In lisp, python, perl, etc, you'll have 10 or so lines. In C

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-11 Thread Xah Lee
Xah Lee wrote: • A Example of Mathematica's Expressiveness http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/Mathematica_expressiveness.html On Dec 11, 3:53 am, "William James" wrote: > function normal( ary ) > { var div = Math.sqrt( > ary.map(function(x) x*x).reduce(functio

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-11 Thread Xah Lee
On Dec 10, 2:47 pm, John W Kennedy wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > > In lisp, python, perl, etc, you'll have 10 or so lines. In C or Java, > > you'll have 50 or hundreds lines. > > C: > > #include > #include > > void normal(int dim, float* x, f

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-11 Thread Xah Lee
unning scsh 0.6.4, and don't know Scheme lisp well) Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Mathematica 7 compares to other languages

2008-12-25 Thread Xah Lee
return vec.map(function(x) x/div) } is also not qualified. (it is syntax error in SpiderMonkey engine “JavaScript-C 1.7.0 2007-10-03”) Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

HTML Correctness and Validators

2008-12-28 Thread Xah Lee
/html_correctness.html plain text version follows. --- HTML Correctness and Validators Xah Lee, 2008-12-28 Some notes about html correctness and html validator. Condition Of Website Correctness My website “xahlee.org” has close to 4000 html files. All are valid html files. “Valid” here

Why not Ruby?

2008-12-31 Thread Xah Lee
Just spent 3 hours looking into Ruby today. Here's my short impression for those interested. * Why Not Ruby? http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/why_not_Ruby.html plain text version follows: -- Why Not Ruby? Xah Lee, 2008-12-31 Spent about 3

Re: programming by evolution?

2009-02-23 Thread Xah Lee
compliant with specs that looked > good on paper but nobody ever tested with actual use to refine them > until the project was "complete" and it was too expensive to fix them. 2009-02-09 Today, i happened to run across a blog on the eXtreme Programing FUCK. http://www.yosefk.com/blog/ex

Re: reading file to list

2009-02-25 Thread Xah Lee
just call their names, or use function composition with lambda (which gets complex quickly). One major aspect of this problem is that the scope of vars becomes hard to understand in the deep nested source code. This is worse in elisp, because emacs is dynamically scoped, so you have to avoid using

Re: reading file to list

2009-02-25 Thread Xah Lee
On Feb 25, 10:18 am, Xah Lee wrote: > On Feb 25, 3:34 am, nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com wrote: > > > the nasty cons then only appears in a single function which > > you can hide in a library > > I think the following answers that. > > Q: If you don't like

Re: a look at the browser scene & emacs

2009-02-26 Thread Xah Lee
ming Microsoft Notepad? is it simply the fact that making things easier to use, means kissing Microsoft's ass? Is the open source Firefox, and Google's extremely advanced technologies and easy to use applications such as gmail, google map, google earth, google code, all becoming Microsoft Notepad clone? Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: a look at the browser scene & emacs

2009-02-26 Thread Xah Lee
On Feb 26, 1:59 am, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Xah Lee writes: > > Hi Xah, > > > is the suggestion of using modern standard shortcut set of X C V for > > Cut, Copy, Paste, of which Linux uses, means it is turning emacs to a > > fancy Notepad clone? > > The func

Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-07 Thread Xah Lee
Of interest: • Why Can't You Be Normal? http://xahlee.org/Netiquette_dir/why_cant_you_be_normal.html • Ban Xah Lee http://xahlee.org/Netiquette_dir/ban_Xah_Lee.html I consider this post relevant because i've been perennially gossiped about in comp.lang.* groups today and in the pa

Which Lisp to Learn?

2009-03-07 Thread Xah Lee
Favorite Lisp Xah Lee, 2009-03-04 Javier wrote: “What open source implementation of Lisp do you prefer and why?” My fav is Emacs Lisp. Because it is practical. More or less the most widely used lisp today. Considered as a tool, it has probably some 10 times more users than either Common Lisp or

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-09 Thread Xah Lee
te issues in the past decade. You can find many answers about my reasons or posting behavior here: • Netiquette Anthropology http://xahlee.org/Netiquette_dir/troll.html Recently i started a blog that is collection of my online posts. If you need to talk about me, feel free to comment there. I a

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-27 Thread Xah Lee
esult: Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition: 5th International Conference, MLDM 2007, Leipzig, Germany, July 18-20, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture ... / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) (Paperback) by Petra Perner (Editor) http://books.google.com/books?id=CE1QzecoVf4C&pg=PA4

multi-core software

2009-06-04 Thread Xah Lee
Of interest: • Why Must Software Be Rewritten For Multi-Core Processors? http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/multi-core_software.html plain text version follows. -- Why Must Software Be Rewritten For Multi-Core Processors? Xah Lee, 2009-06

Re: The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering

2009-06-04 Thread Xah Lee
On Jun 3, 11:50 pm, Xah Lee wrote: > Of interest: > • The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/programer_frustration.html Addendum: The point in these short examples is not about software bugs or problems. It illustrates, how seemingl

Re: Python's doc problems: sort

2008-05-20 Thread Xah Lee
, but always got put down by python priests) Xah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Xah's Edu Corner: The Concepts and Confusions of Pre-fix, In-fix, Post-fix and Fully Functional Notations

2006-03-15 Thread Xah Lee
The Concepts and Confusions of Pre-fix, In-fix, Post-fix and Fully Functional Notations Xah Lee, 2006-03-15 Let me summarize: The LISP notation, is a functional notation, and is not a so-called pre-fix notation or algebraic notation. Algebraic notations have the concept of operators, meaning

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: The Concepts and Confusions of Pre-fix, In-fix, Post-fix and Fully Functional Notations

2006-03-16 Thread Xah Lee
Xah Lee wrote: « The Concepts and Confusions of Pre-fix, In-fix, Post-fix and Fully Functional Notations http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/notations.html » A side note: the terminology “Algebraic” Notation is a misnomer. It seems to imply that such notations have something to do with the

Re: Xah's Edu Corner: What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

2006-03-19 Thread Xah Lee
What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language Xah Lee, 200502, 200603. In languages human or computer, there's a notion of expressiveness. English for example, is very expressive in manifestation, witness all the poetry and implications and allusions and connotations and dictions. There

Python has a new Logo

2006-03-23 Thread Xah Lee
Python has a new logo! See http://python.org/ And it is a fantastic logo. Xah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ∑ http://xahlee.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python has a new Logo

2006-03-23 Thread Xah Lee
is there larger versions of the logo? and, any usage restrictions? i also like to find out the the artist name. Any pointer is appreciated. Thanks. Xah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ∑ http://xahlee.org/ Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote: > Em Qui, 2006-03-23 às 07:43 -0800, Xah Lee escreveu: > &g

A Lambda Logo Tour

2006-04-05 Thread Xah Lee
A Lambda Logo Tour (and why LISP languages using λ as logo should not be looked upon kindly) Xah Lee, 2002-02 Dear lispers, The lambda character λ, always struck a awe in me, as with other mathematical symbols. In my mind, i imagine that those obscure math symbolism are etched in stone by god

Xah's Edu Corner: Teach Ourself Programing In Ten Years?

2010-01-02 Thread Xah Lee
t version follows. ------ The Condition of Industrial Programers Xah Lee, 2006-05 Before i stepped into the computing industry, my first industrial programing experience was at Wolfram Research Inc as a intern in 1995. (Wolfram Research is famously known for their highly su

Xah's Edu Corner: Unix Pipe As Functional Language

2010-01-25 Thread Xah Lee
Dear comrades, Hot from the press: • Unix Pipe As Functional Language http://xahlee.org/comp/unix_pipes_and_functional_lang.html plain text version follows: -- Unix Pipe As Functional Language Xah Lee, 2010-01-25 Found the following juicy

python 3's adoption

2010-01-26 Thread Xah Lee
Some thoughts about Python 3 Adoption. Xah Lee, 2010-01-26 Some notes of Wikipedia readings related to Python. Unladen Swallow, a new project from Google. It is a new python compiler with the goal of 5 times faster than the de facto standand implementation CPython. Also note Stackless Python

Re: python 3's adoption

2010-01-27 Thread Xah Lee
e_dir/why_cant_you_be_normal.html Xah On Jan 26, 7:12 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" wrote: > * John Bokma: > > > "Alf P. Steinbach" writes: > > >> Please don't post more noise and ad hominem attacks to the group, > >> Steve. > > > Funny that you

Re: python 3's adoption

2010-01-27 Thread Xah Lee
On Jan 26, 3:47 pm, Xah Lee wrote: > * Many functions that return lists now returns “Views” or > “Iterators” Instead. A fucking fuck all fucked up shit. A extraneous > “oop engineering” complication. (See: Lambda in Python 3000) See also: “Iterators: Signs of Weakness in Object

Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-02 Thread Xah Lee
Logo http://xahlee.org/java-a-day/java_logo.html Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

python admin abuse complaint

2010-02-02 Thread Xah Lee
cular, i have not been in in freenode.net's #python channel. I don't know who is dash. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Python's Reference And Internal Model Of Computing Languages

2010-02-02 Thread Xah Lee
just wrote this essay. Comment & feedback very welcome. Python's Reference And Internal Model Of Computing Languages Xah Lee, 2010-02-02 In Python, there are 2 ways to clear a hash: “myHash = {}” and “myHash.clear()”. What is the difference? ↓ The difference is that “m

Re: Python's Reference And Internal Model Of Computing Languages

2010-02-02 Thread Xah Lee
()On Feb 2, 6:46 pm, Ryan Kelly wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 17:28 -0800, Xah Lee wrote: > > I know, I know, do not feed the trolls.  But this is just so *wrong* > that I can't help myself. > > > In Python, there are 2 ways to clear a hash: > > No, n

Re: python admin abuse complaint

2010-02-04 Thread Xah Lee
ank you. For anyone reading this thread and interested in my opinions, i have written many essays related to this and netiquette. Many of which detail other similar incidences that i personally experienced, such as freenode's irc ban in #emacs channel. If you are interested, they can be

NoSQL Movement?

2010-03-03 Thread Xah Lee
ng. So, i thought i'd post here to solicit some opinins from the programer community i know. Here's the plain text version - The NoSQL Movement Xah Lee, 2010-01-26 In the past few years, there's new fashionable thinking about anti relational database, now bl

Re: NoSQL Movement?

2010-03-08 Thread Xah Lee
obably number one among the world's user of databases, probably double or triple than the second user with the most large datasize. At that point, it seems logical that they need their own db, relational or not. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ On Mar 4, 10:35 pm, John Nagle wrote: > Xah Lee wr

Re: NoSQL Movement?

2010-03-09 Thread Xah Lee
On Mar 8, 11:14 am, Duncan Booth wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > > For example, consider, if you are within world's top 100th user of > > database in terms of database size, such as Google, then it may be > > that the off-the-shelf tools may be limiting. But how many users &g

Re: NoSQL Movement?

2010-03-10 Thread Xah Lee
scale it. Right, but that doesn't seems to have any relevance about my point. Many says that scalability is key to NoSQL, i pointed out that unless you are like google, or ranked top 1000 in the world in terms data size, the scalability reason isn't that strong. Xah Lee wrote: > man

Hacker News, Xahlee.Org, and What is Politics?

2010-03-15 Thread Xah Lee
A essay related to the recent discussion of banning, and lisp associated group at ycombinator.com . - Hacker News, Xahlee.Org, and What is Politics? Xah Lee, 2010-03-14 Today, i noticed that someone posted one of my article “Why Emacs is still so

Re: to RG - Lisp lunacy and Perl psychosis

2010-03-17 Thread Xah Lee
2010-03-17 On Mar 10, 9:17 am, Ben Morrow wrote: > Also, flamebait language-comparison xposts involving Lisp are one > of Xah Lee's trademarks. You might want to look into not imitating > him/her/it. being a professional programer today, typically you know more than just one langu

Google AI challenge: planet war. Lisp won.

2010-12-02 Thread Xah Lee
/Planet-Wars-Post-Mortem.html (not sure if this has been mentioned here but quick search didn't find it) Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Google AI challenge: planet war. Lisp won.

2010-12-22 Thread Xah Lee
.php there are 12 teams using OCaml. See: http://ai-contest.com/rankings.php (click on the lang to see all teams using that lang) Xah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

opinion: comp lang docs style

2011-01-04 Thread Xah Lee
a opinion piece. 〈The Idiocy of Computer Language Docs〉 http://xahlee.org/comp/idiocy_of_comp_lang.html -- The Idiocy of Computer Language Docs Xah Lee, 2011-01-03 Worked with Mathematica for a whole day yesterday, after about 10 years hiatus

Re: opinion: comp lang docs style

2011-01-06 Thread Xah Lee
Richard Gruet's quick ref: http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR26/PQR2.6.html on the python doc, afaik people complains all the time, and i know at least 3 times in different years people have tried to bring up projects to fix it, all shot down with spit badly by python priests, of course. just 2 days a

do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

2011-01-14 Thread Xah Lee
he utterly idiotic Perl & unix & mysql world. (See: The Unix Pestilence ◇ Xah Lee's Computing Experience (Impression Of Lisp from Mathematica).) Well, dead-end just as Emacs Lisp i'm spending my nights with in the past 4 years. LOL. And on that note, same thing can be said with has

Re: do you know what's CGI? (web history personal story)

2011-01-15 Thread Xah Lee
7;s Point Of View. 〈Avatar and District 9 Movie Review〉 http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/skina/avatar.html ------ Avatar and District 9 Movie Review Xah Lee, 2010-01-07 -- Avatar Went to watch the movie Avatar (2009 fil

Guy Steele on Parallel Programing

2011-02-05 Thread Xah Lee
might be interesting. 〈Guy Steele on Parallel Programing〉 http://xahlee.org/comp/Guy_Steele_parallel_computing.html -- Guy Steele on Parallel Programing Xah Lee, 2011-02-05 A fascinating talk by the well respected computer scientist Guy Steele

Re: How to Write grep in Emacs Lisp (tutorial)

2011-02-08 Thread Xah Lee
On Feb 8, 9:32 am, Icarus Sparry wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:51:54 +0100, Petter Gustad wrote: > > Xah Lee writes: > > >> problem with find xargs is that they spawn grep for each file, which > >> becomes too slow to be usable. > > > find . -maxdepth

Re: How to Write grep in Emacs Lisp (tutorial)

2011-02-11 Thread Xah Lee
0 i ported our ecommerce web app from Solaris to it. Am not exactly thrilled. At the time, i vaguely recall, the HP sales guys come to us and tells us they have this heart-beat technology ... Xah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages

2011-02-16 Thread Xah Lee
might be interesting. 〈Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages (ASCII Jam; Unicode; Fortress)〉 http://xahlee.org/comp/comp_lang_unicode.html -- Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages (ASCII Jam; Unicode; Fortress) Xah Lee

Re: Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages

2011-02-18 Thread Xah Lee
On 2011-02-16, Xah Lee  wrote: │ Vast majority of computer languages use ASCII as its character set. │ This means, it jams multitude of operators into about 20 symbols. │ Often, a symbol has multiple meanings depending on contex. On 2011-02-17, rantingrick wrote: … On 2011-02-17, Cthun wrote

Re: Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages

2011-02-18 Thread Xah Lee
i think for special purposes OSes, they have quite a lot ... from Mitsubishi, NEC, etc... in their huge robotics industry among others. (again, this is all second hand knowledge) ... i recall having read non-english comp lang that appeared recently... Xah Lee -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips

2010-06-24 Thread Xah Lee
• Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_formfeed.html plain text version follows -- Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips Xah Lee, 2010-06-24 This page discusses some problems involving the Form feed

Re: Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips

2010-06-24 Thread Xah Lee
On Jun 24, 5:41 am, Xah Lee wrote: > • Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips > http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization_formfeed.html a follow up question. when i was learning python in ~2005, i remember seeing it in python code, but i haven't done much python since. Does py

Re: Emacs Form Feed (^L) Display Suggestion and Tips

2010-06-25 Thread Xah Lee
On Jun 24, 11:12 am, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Xah Lee writes: > > Hi Xah, > > > also, besides emacs elisp, does anyone see the form feed char in other > > lang source code? > > It's quite often used in messages in newsgroups and mailing lists.  The > Gnus n

Famous Emacs People With Hand Injuries

2010-06-28 Thread Xah Lee
• Famous Emacs People With Hand Injuries http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.html plain text version follows. - Famous Emacs People With Hand Injuries Xah Lee, 2010-06-28 This page collect tales of computer programer

disputing the history of lisp machines

2010-06-28 Thread Xah Lee
seen, he's even intentionally mis-infom people for his point of view on the philosophy of software licensing. (see http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ2/FSF_philosophy.html ) Dan Weinreb's blog article probably has been mentioned here before, but i felt it be announced again. Xah

death of newsgroups (Microsoft closing their newsgroups)

2010-07-13 Thread Xah Lee
• Death of Newsgroups http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ2/death_of_newsgroups.html plain text version follows. -- Death of Newsgroups Xah Lee, 2010-07-13 Microsoft is closing down their newsgroups. See: microsoft.public.windows.powershell

have you read emacs manual cover to cover?; (was Do we need a "Stevens" book?)

2010-07-30 Thread Xah Lee
books) I read cover to cover, twice, in about 1991. In fact this is how i learned programing, my first computer language, and the first i mastered. (See: HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator and Xah Lee's Computing Experience Bio. ) - The Mathematica Book Ma

a article on does lang influence thought

2010-08-10 Thread Xah Lee
... perhaps it's time to pick up another lang. lol and, time to learn lojban too! • Xah's lojban page http://xahlee.org/lojban/lojban.html Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

math symbols in unicode (grouped by purpose)

2010-08-13 Thread Xah Lee
e is not well defined. hope it's useful to some one. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: math symbols in unicode (grouped by purpose)

2010-08-15 Thread Xah Lee
hi kenny! Xah Lee wrote: > some collection of math symbols in unicode. > • Math Symbols in Unicode >    http://xahlee.org/comp/unicode_math_operators.html Kenneth Tilton wrote: > I am surprised you do not include the numeric character codes. i thought about it, but the page would

Re: What text editor is everyone using for Python

2009-06-05 Thread Xah Lee
l Emacs keyboard shortcuts is problematic indeed. See: • Why Emacs's Keyboard Shortcuts Are Painful http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_kb_shortcuts_pain.html However, you can completely fix that. See: • Ergoemacs Keybindings http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html Xah ∑ ht

is there python image lib that does imagemagick?

2009-06-08 Thread Xah Lee
hell calls. Basically i have a python script that works in os x that process a dir of html files and generate thumbnails. I'm porting to Windows and wish to get rid of imagemagick dependence. Thanks. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

a evaluation of Google-code-prettify

2009-06-21 Thread Xah Lee
For those of you interested in the Google tech of syntax coloring source code in html on the fly using javascript, i've spent few hours for a evaluation. See: • Google-code-prettify Examples http://xahlee.org/js/google-code-prettify/index.html Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ --

talk of concurrency by Anders Hejlsberg and Guy Steele

2009-06-24 Thread Xah Lee
| 75,079 Views | 19 Comments Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

OT: unix to Windows technology

2009-07-08 Thread Xah Lee
me, esp if you are a Windows expert and answer some of my unanswered questions on the page. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: OT: unix to Windows technology

2009-07-08 Thread Xah Lee
Xah Lee wrote: > • Switching from Mac/Unix To PC/Windows > http://xahlee.org/mswin/switch_to_windows.html Kenneth Tilton wrote: > You just discovered PCs are cheaper? > > The funny thing is that that is Microsoft's answer to the Apple Mac-PC > ads, they show people sho

Re: OT: unix to Windows technology

2009-07-09 Thread Xah Lee
a fried showed me this today: http://xahlee.org/funny/Microsoft_eula.html not sure which site originally reported it. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

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

2009-07-25 Thread Xah Lee
://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_doc_index.html • Examples Of Quality Documentation In The Computing Industry http://xahlee.org/perl-python/quality_docs.html • Xah's Perl and Python Tutorial http://xahlee.org/perl-python/index.html • Xah's PHP Tutorial http://xahlee.org/php/index.html X

Google sitemap generator in python gone?

2009-08-05 Thread Xah Lee
version still available? or is there some official doc about this change? thanks. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Social problems of Python doc [was Re: Python docs disappointing]

2009-08-09 Thread Xah Lee
_deception.html Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ On Jul 31, 1:10 pm, kj wrote: > I'm pretty new to Python, and I like a lot overall, but I find the > documentation for Python rather poor, overall. > > I'm sure that Python experts don't have this problem: they have &

A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-13 Thread Xah Lee
• A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/emacs_whitespace-mode_problems.html plane text version follows: -- A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode Xah

Re: A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode

2009-08-15 Thread Xah Lee
Fresh out of the oven: • How to use and setup Emacs's whitespace-mode http://xahlee.org/emacs/whitespace-mode.html Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ On Aug 13, 6:36 pm, Xah Lee wrote: > • A Exhibition Of Tech Geekers Incompetence: Emacs whitespace-mode > http://xahlee.org/UnixResour

Xah's Edu Corner: The importance of syntax & notations.

2009-08-15 Thread Xah Lee
of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully Nested Notations http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/notations.html • The Problems of Traditional Math Notation http://xahlee.org/cmaci/notation/trad_math_notation.html Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Social problems of Python doc [was Re: Python docs disappointing]

2009-08-16 Thread Xah Lee
now valid html. Good riddence of the fucking TeX. Also, code examples have syntax coloring on. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ On Aug 12, 12:15 pm, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > [Xah Lee] > > > i've wrote several articles about this issue, total time spend on this > > is prob

python doc available in emacs info format?

2009-08-16 Thread Xah Lee
e_dir/writ/lang_purity_cult_deception.html Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ On Dec 11 2008, 6:56 am, Matthias wrote: > Xah Lee writes: > > in programing elisp in emacs, i can press “Ctrl+h f” to lookup > > the doc for the function under cursor. is there such facility > > when c

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