You being an interesting personality, I have just mildly related question. What is your opinion on picolisp's floating point situation? (this is one reason why I did not even attempt to delve too much into it apart from some small experiments in REPL, though obviously I still find it and community fascinating). Similarly consideration about other "regular"(one could say efficient) structures like arrays. I have this view that programming language should allow writing something as video games to be of interest to me. And no native floats and arrays seems like it would make such potentially quite cumbersome.
On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 10:45 PM Guido Stepken <gstep...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting question, isn't it? Let's have a look into my findings! > > Anaconda is a well known, free Software Installer for Python and R > packages, mostly used under Windows, right? > > And you think, that "free software" packages cannot be restricted by US > ministry of trade or U.S. president, such as happened in Huawei Google > case, right? Plain wrong: > > Quote from: https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda-repository/2.23/admin/eula/ > > [quote] > Export regulations > > Any use or distribution of the Software Product is made under conditions > that the user and/or distributor is in full compliance with all export and > other governing laws of the United States of America, including full and > ongoing compliance with the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) of the > United States Department of Commerce. See www.commerce.gov/ and > http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/regulations/export-administration-regulations-ear. > Use or distribution of Continuum software products to any persons, entities > or countries currently under US sanctions is strictly prohibited. Continuum > has self-assessed that Anaconda Repository requires no license to for > export to non-embargoed countries > > The United States currently has embargoes against several countries. The > exportation, re-exportation, sale or supply, directly or indirectly, from > the United States, or by a U.S. person wherever located, of any Continuum > software to any of these countries is strictly prohibited without prior > authorization by the United States Government. By accepting this Agreement, > you represent to Continuum that you will comply with all applicable export > regulations for Anaconda. > [/quote] > > Means: Export Anaconda or packages from Anaconda to Iran and you're going > to Guantanamo! > > And i repeat: *****Stop using US Software Stacks!***** > > Picoslip has everything, yor IT could ever need! Integrated Distributed > Database, Prolog like reasoning about stored data and even contains a Graph > Database, though it's mentioned nowhere. > > But there is no real need to mention that, since Lisp in itself ("Code is > data, data is code") not only has a "syntax tree" (kind of graph), but, in > fact, you can model any graph you like with Lisp's (cons) constructs. > > And it does not fall under US restrictions, since PicoLisp is <MADE IN > GERMANY> and does not contain any US libraries, that might fall under those > US export laws. > > Have fun! >
