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apologies for the html -- Jack J. Woehr# «'I know what "it" means well enough, when I find http://www.well.com/~jax # a thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or http://www.softwoehr.com # a worm.'» - Lewis Carroll, _Alice in Wonderland_

Re: [dev] [OT]: Go programming language

Julien Steinhauser wrote: On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:53:48PM +, Aled Gest wrote: 2009/11/11 markus schnalke : Then you never tried Lisp! I hope that's sarcasm, because I wouldn't call requiring everything to be wrapped in parentheses clean :P I guess this thread could

Re: [dev] JOE editor was: a little bit of vi+zsh magic

hiro wrote: Today I was forced to use the joe editor for java. Perhaps I should hang myself... Perhaps 'joe' was written by the Sirius Cybernetics Company. -- Jack J. Woehr# «'I know what "it" means well enough, when I find http://www.well.com/~jax # a thing,' said the Duck: 'i

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

Uriel wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:40 AM, Jack Woehr wrote: Look at the great ideologues of the recent decades. It was not until I beat him up for months about it that he started to change his ways. Ha! He is actually *listenting* and he proceeds to actually test the ideas that

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

frederic wrote: Anselm R Garbe wrote: I don't miss closures. You got the static keyword to avoid polluting the global namespace. Kind regards, Anselm U think it may be genetic? :) Byzantine libraries, rich class hierarchies, clever closures, maybe are for members of the species /programmator

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

Daniel Bainton wrote: 2009/9/15 Jack Woehr : U think it may be genetic? :) Ah, thanks for proving that Uriel isn't quite in the bottom of the chain, atleast he seems to know how to spell words instead of replacing really short words with one letter like a complete idiot. :) -- D

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

Anselm R Garbe wrote: I don't miss closures. You got the static keyword to avoid polluting the global namespace. Kind regards, Anselm U think it may be genetic? :) Byzantine libraries, rich class hierarchies, clever closures, maybe are for members of the species /programmator domesticus/. T

Re: [dev] Lexers and parsers

Maurício wrote: If you had such "shell yacc", how would you like it to be or behave? Like Forth, the simplest parser ever invented. -- Jack J. Woehr# «'I know what "it" means well enough, when I find http://www.well.com/~jax # a thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or http:

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

Charlie Kester wrote: On Thu 06 Aug 2009 at 16:52:39 PDT Samuel Baldwin wrote: I definitely enjoyed reading this; the principles were especially nice to have there. Yes, Samuel, Anselm is very cogent when he presents his position ... it was a delightful conversation for an interviewer. (2)

[dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

And for your delectation: Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org -- Jack J. Woehr# «'I know what "it" means well enough, when I find http://www.w

Re: [dev] Java vs suckless

Jack Woehr wrote: Thought of suckless today. And then blogged again on simplicity as /the/ design virtue. Nothing new to you all, but you might find it amusing: Accidental Poet of Simplicity <http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Accidental-

[dev] Java vs suckless

Thought of suckless today. Was reading Update on Java EE 6 and Glassfish : /[T]here were competing JSRs that had to do with resource injection, and since Java EE 6 is suppos

Re: [dev] mention suckless favorably in today's blog article A Quantum of Computing

Uriel wrote: I guess you know and have read Rob Pike's 'Systems Software Research is Irrelevant': http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/ It seemed true when he wrote it and seems true now. -- Jack J. Woehr# I run for public office from time to time. It's like http://www.well.c

Re: OT: Re: [dev] mention suckless favorably in today's blog article A Quantum of Computing

Szabolcs Nagy wrote: "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." Feynman Certainly not I. But it hasn't stopped me from blogging about QM! Here's another entry, a nice conversation with an astrophysicist about building a quantum computer. http://dobbscodetalk.com/in

Re: OT: Re: [dev] mention suckless favorably in today's blog article A Quantum of Computing

Jimmy Tang wrote: I haven't looked into quantum computing in a while myself, the last time I looked at it the prototypes were all still toys, and it was mostly theory. I probably won't see a fully functioning quantum computer in my life time and I'm still young :) I'm in my late 50's. It occu

Re: [dev] mention suckless favorably in today's blog article A Quantum of Computing

Uriel wrote: The software industry has become an endless wheel of regurgitated reinvented square wheels, plus huge efforts to 'optimize' said square wheels buy adding even more square wheels to the assembly. Yes, I have been "regurgitated" myself a few times from the industry, having spoken up

[dev] mention suckless favorably in today's blog article A Quantum of Computing

I mention suckless favorably in today's blog article A Quantum of Computing You folks are the greatest. -- Jack J. Woehr# I run for public office from time to time. It's like http://ww

Re: [dev] dwm development continues NOW

Enno Boland (Gottox) wrote: 2009/6/21 Uriel : Excessive and naive obsession with code reuse is one of the major sources of gratuitous complexity in the software industry. Ooh! Nice. "Having an idea and being able to execute it in code" is in 75% of cases much more serendipitous than rot

Re: [dev] Suckless (*NIX|*BSD) Distribution?

There's already a BSD distrib that sucks less. It's called OpenBSD! -- Jack J. Woehr# I run for public office from time to time. It's like http://www.well.com/~jax # working out at the gym, you sweat a lot, don't get http://www.softwoehr.com # anywhere, and you fall asleep easily afte