y in commericial
software about 10 years ago.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
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On Aug 17, 4:32 am, "Colin S. Miller" wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > btw, is there still info format for python doc?
>
> > i feel kinda sad that emacs info format has pretty much been
> > d
he date of this speech also explains parts of the writings about some
mysterious “fundamental science work”, which now we know is his
controversial book A New Kind Of Science (2002).
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
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Xah Lee wrote:
Personally, particular interesting info i
• Math Notations, Computer Languages, and the “Form” in Formalism
http://xahlee.org/cmaci/notation/index.html
plain text version follows. (lacks links)
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Math Notations, Computer Languages, and the “Form” in Formalism
Xah Lee, 2009-08-31
This page is a collection
2009-09-07
On Sep 5, 7:41 am, slawekk wrote:
> > Theorem provers
> > such as OCaml (HOL, Coq), Mizar does math formalism as a foundation,
> > also function as a generic computer language, but lacks abilities as a
> > computer algebra system or math notation representation.
>
> Isabelle's presenta
cleaned up the previous post.
• 〈HTML6, Your HTML/XML Simplified〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/html6.html
plain text version follows
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HTML6, Your HTML/XML Simplified
Xah Lee, 2010-09-21
Tired of the standard bodies telling us what to do and change
On Sep 23, 1:18 am, smh wrote:
> The following is not exactly what you are looking for, but you might
> find it interesting.
>
> http://www.franz.com/support/tech_corner/xml-generator-blurb.html
>
> This blurb is an example of a self-embedding document.
> I've used this XML generator in many appli
here's a interesting toy list processing problem.
I have a list of lists, where each sublist is labelled by
a number. I need to collect together the contents of all sublists
sharing
the same label. So if I have the list
((0 a b) (1 c d) (2 e f) (3 g h) (1 i j) (2 k l) (4 m n) (2 o p) (4 q
r) (5 s
2010-09-26
On Sep 25, 11:17 pm, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Python solution follows (earlier one with an error cancelled). All
> crossposting removed since crossposting is a standard trolling tactic.
>
> from collections import defaultdict
>
> def collect(xss):
> d = defaultdict(list)
>
On Sep 26, 7:56 am, Sherm Pendley wrote:
> Jürgen Exner writes:
> > Alexander Burger wrote:
> >>In PicoLisp:
>
> > What the f does PicoLisp have to with Perl?
>
> It's Xah. He cross-posts in an attempt to start a language feud.
>
> Please don't feed the troll.
sorry i disagree. And please d
On Sep 26, 5:40 am, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
> > And just for good measure, some «European style quotes» and “balanced smart
> > quotes” which I intend some day to try to convince people to start using
> > to eliminate the scourge of backslash escapes. But that's a topic for
> > another day.
>
>
2010-09-27
> For instance, this is far more convenient:
> [x+1 for x in [1,2,3,4,5] if x%2==0]
> than this:
> map(lambda x:x+1,filter(lambda x:x%2==0,[1,2,3,4,5]))
How about this:
LC(func, inputList, P)
compared to
[func for myVar in inputList if P]
the functional form is:
• shorter
• n
On Sep 27, 12:11 pm, namekuseijin wrote:
> On 27 set, 16:06, Xah Lee wrote:> 2010-09-27
>
> > > For instance, this is far more convenient:
> > > [x+1 for x in [1,2,3,4,5] if x%2==0]
> > > than this:
> > > map(lambda x:x+1,filter(lambda x:x%2==0,
On Sep 27, 9:34 pm, John Bokma wrote:
> Seebs writes:
>
> fup set to poster
>
> > On 2010-09-28, John Bokma wrote:
> >> Seebs writes:
> >>> On 2010-09-26, J?rgen Exner wrote:
> It was livibetter who without any motivation or reasoning posted Python
> code in CLPM.
>
> >>> Not exactly
xah wrote:
> in anycase, how's “do” not imperative?
On Sep 28, 6:27 am, namekuseijin wrote:
> > how's “do” a “named let”? can you show example or reference of that
> > proposal? (is it worthwhile?)
>
> I'll post it again in the hope you'll read this time:
>
> "
> (do ((i 0 (+ 1 i)) ; i initially
2010-09-28
On Sep 28, 12:07 pm, namekuseijin wrote:
> On 28 set, 14:56, Xah Lee wrote:
>
> > ultimately, all lang gets transformed at the compiler level to become
> > machine instructions, which is imperative programing in the ultimate
> > sense.
>
> > You
On Sep 29, 11:02 am, namekuseijin wrote:
> On 28 set, 19:38, Xah Lee wrote:
>
> > • “list comprehension” is a very bad jargon; thus harmful to
> > functional programing or programing in general. Being a bad jargon, it
> > encourage mis-communication, mis-understanding.
here's my experiences dealing with unicode in various langs.
Unicode Support in Ruby, Perl, Python, Emacs Lisp
Xah Lee, 2010-10-07
I looked at Ruby 2 years ago. One problem i found is that it does not
support Unicode well. I just checked today, it still doesn't. Just do
a web search o
2010-10-09
On Oct 9, 3:45 pm, Sean McAfee wrote:
> Xah Lee writes:
> > Perl's exceedingly lousy unicode support hack is well known. In fact
> > it is the primary reason i “switched” to python for my scripting needs
> > in 2005. (See: Unicode in Perl and Python)
>
On Sep 25, 9:05 pm, Xah Lee wrote:
> here's a interesting toy list processing problem.
>
> I have a list of lists, where each sublist is labelled by
> a number. I need to collect together the contents of all sublists
> sharing
> the same label. So if I have the list
>
A great piece about terminology in computer languages.
* 〈The Poetry of Function Naming〉 (2010-10-18) By Stephen Wolfram.
At: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2010/10/the-poetry-of-function-naming/
See also:
• 〈The Importance of Terminology's Quality In Computer Languages〉
http://xahlee.org/Un
On Oct 20, 4:52 am, Marc Mientki wrote:
> Am 20.10.2010 13:14, schrieb Xah Lee:
>
> > See also:
>
> > • 〈The Importance of Terminology's Quality In Computer Languages〉
> >http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/naming_functions.html
>
> > where i gave some
pure functional lang (e.g. haskell), i think lc is pretty bad.
here's the plain text version of my essay
What's List Comprehension and Why is it Harmful?
Xah Lee, 2010-10-14
This page explains what is List Comprehension, with examples from
several lang
On Oct 28, 12:59 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In message
> <3fe80ac4-b595-4bcb-96b9-9138b1ec5...@l17g2000yqe.googlegroups.com>,
>
> TheFlyingDutchman wrote:
> > On Oct 27, 4:55 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> > wrote:
>
> >> Would it be right to say that the only Lisp still in common use is the
>
On Oct 28, 1:42 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> sthueb...@googlemail.com (Stefan Hübner) writes:
> >> Would it be right to say that the only Lisp still in common use is the
> >> Elisp
> >> built into Emacs?
>
> > Clojure (http://clojure.org) is a Lisp on the JVM. It's g
On Oct 27, 5:46 pm, rantingrick wrote:
> On Oct 26, 4:31 am, Xah Lee wrote:
>
> > recently wrote a article based on a debate here. (can't find the
> > original thread on Google at the moment)
>
> Hey all you numbskulls who are contributing the annoying off-topic
&g
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