On Aug 30, 8:12 am, "E.D.G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Important Research Project (Related to computer programming) > > Posted by E.D.G. on August 30, 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This report is being posted to a number of Internet Newsgroups
Always the hallmark of a considerate poster. > to see if > there are any experienced computer programmers who would like to provide > some assistance with an effort to develop a Perl language computer program. > > Interested parties can try contacting me by e-mail or by posting a > response note to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup. They would need to > download a recent (free) MSI copy of Perl from the ActiveState Web site and > get it running on a Windows XP or Vista system. > > http://www.activestate.com > This is a little backwards, one usually presents their research topic *first* and their contact info *last*. The reason? SO PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THE @#$(&#!@ YOU ARE WORKING ON! Ok, I'll bite, keep reading... > I am presently using Perl 5.8.8 Whoop-de-doo for you. > but plan to upgrade to the latest > version as soon as possible. People can use Windows 98 if that is the only > operating system available. Perl also runs on other operating systems. But > at this time I specifically need help with the Windows version. > I suspect Perl is largely the same Perl on all those platforms. Win 98? Is this a zombie spam from the turn of the century? > The goal is to have a single Perl program (or modules) perform functions > that have been done by a sizeable collection of other language programs in > the past. > Doing what!? Grrr..., keep reading, there's gotta be a punch line... > Help is presently needed with learning how to get Perl to generate > charts and also produce standalone .exe copies of itself. The plan is to > then make those .exe copies available to other scientific researchers around > the world for free use along with free use updates when they become > available. If other researchers wish to get Perl running on their own > computers then they will probably also be given the source code for the > original program for free use so that they can do their own development > work. > Ohmigod, is Google broken? Or has Perl gone this long and this far without support for creating charts and graphs? Sounds like about 10 minutes of research. > Perl was originally chosen because it is quite versatile, is a free > download, and is supported both by ActiveState and quite a few independent > programmers. So other researchers could get their own versions running > without having to worry about viruses or cost. > (Why is this posted on all these non-Perl newsgroups, then? I've *seen* Perl already, and never want to again!) > So far the work is fairly advanced. The effort has been underway for at > least a decade. ... and we are just getting around to plotting some data. > The core data generation program was formally copyrighted > several years ago. Red flag #37 - "formally copyrighted", wooo-ooooh > My present version of Perl will send data to Windows as > if it were being manually typed into the keyboard (important for controlling > other programs). And it can directed to respond to most keystrokes even > when another program is the active one. Unfortunately, Windows also > presently responds to those keystrokes. And that complicates things a bit. > ... and has for the past decade, and I still haven't figured it out. > Not being a professional computer programmer I have been finding it > difficult to get new features such as a chart generating ability merged with > and running with Perl. And the entire research project is now being slowed > as a result. One of my colleagues has done an extensive amount of work with > Basic. And I even offered to pay him to help with the Perl development > effort. But after he downloaded a copy of Perl and examined it he decided > that this would involve too much effort. I have to agree with him. > Maybe that up-front language choice could stand a review... > Once it is possible to create charts and .exe versions the plan is for > researchers around the world to develop Perl modules for generating a > variety of data related to sun, moon, planet, ocean tide crest and trough, > and Solid Earth Tide locations. Most of those data can already be generated > with other programs. Some of the data are not yet available anywhere as far > as I am aware. If the effort is unusually successful the Perl program (or > modules) might eventually be converted to CGI programs that will run at one > or more Internet Web sites. AHHH! The "research", I almost forgot! Why is it left to the end of the message? And do we still know what the @#(*&$ this "variety of data" is for? I'm going to take a wild guess here - earthquake prediction? perpetual motion? picking guaranteed-to-win lottery numbers? After a pitch like that, who could not be tempted at the prospect of "generating a variety of data related to sun, moon, etc. etc."? Sign me up - NOT! GTFA, -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
