Re: OpenLanguage: abstract syntax trees

2018-04-28 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
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Re: OpenLanguage: abstract syntax trees

2018-04-20 Thread David Bovill via use-livecode
Hmmm. That is problematic. I think the author must have had some intimate experience of devops. On 20 April 2018 at 20:35, Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 04/20/2018 12:10 PM, David Bovill via use-livecode wrote: > >> Yes - I quite distinctly remember ha

Re: OpenLanguage: abstract syntax trees

2018-04-20 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 04/20/2018 12:10 PM, David Bovill via use-livecode wrote: Yes - I quite distinctly remember having this very discussion with Mark a few years back regarding the Bus Factor. Was clear at that time that a centralised backup was infeasible. I’m glad to say that new additions to the protocol have

Re: OpenLanguage: abstract syntax trees

2018-04-20 Thread David Bovill via use-livecode
Yes - I quite distinctly remember having this very discussion with Mark a few years back regarding the Bus Factor. Was clear at that time that a centralised backup was infeasible. I’m glad to say that new additions to the protocol have made possible decentralised solutions to this conundrum. Unfo

Re: OpenLanguage: abstract syntax trees

2018-04-20 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I believe the team tried to get a backup of Mark's brain a while back, but they ran out of disk space and the computer crashed. They had to settle for copyrighting him and providing an extended health plan. On 4/20/18 1:06 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I was only proposing a possible

Re: OpenLanguage: abstract syntax trees

2018-04-20 Thread David Bovill via use-livecode
Unfortunately I just had a discussion with our CFO. The business model requires us to sound more impressive than we really are. So we will be mentioning a lot of buzz words, with casual references to Distributed Ledger Technology wherever possible. Marketing has decided it would be good to do in L

Re: OpenLanguage: abstract syntax trees

2018-04-20 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I was only proposing a possible framework. Obviously, Mark's brain is so complex (perhaps convoluted might be a better term) that the project may require millions of years and the 2nd most powerful computer ever devised in any space time to accomplish this task. Knowing the frustration of those

Re: OpenLanguage: abstract syntax trees

2018-04-20 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
you forgot the most important part of that, the dumbItDownForUsN00bz() function On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 10:50 AM, David Bovill via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Good idea. > > Or a podcast. Yes that is what we should do. I’ll send you an invite Mark > and describe the to

Re: OpenLanguage: abstract syntax trees

2018-04-20 Thread David Bovill via use-livecode
Good idea. Or a podcast. Yes that is what we should do. I’ll send you an invite Mark and describe the topic + projects that will go on the show. On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 at 15:46, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > What is needed for this is for someone to write a

Re: OpenLanguage: abstract syntax trees

2018-04-20 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
What is needed for this is for someone to write a Waddingham Knowledge Extractor API, which would probably involve wtiting an intermediate Waddingham Syntax Distiller (and advanced kind of DSL in it's own right) as well as a mind wave to digital conversion device. To my mind, the latter has not

Re: OpenLanguage: abstract syntax trees

2018-04-20 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2018-04-19 09:57, David Bovill via use-livecode wrote: So let's ask some dumb questions: 1. Is there an abstract syntax tree (AST) for the Livecode language? Yes - the AST is defined by the set of syntax classes in the engine source-code (such as MCAnswer, MCMinus, MCProperty). 2.