Re: [9fans] i'm afraid we've had it wrong

2013-09-30 Thread Jonathan Cast
family without changing all the user programs that intended to use it. calling that it just works may be a stretch. [J]ust in the since of just barely not in the sense of simply . . . part of the reason one still sees line items that say works with ip6. -- Jonathan Cast jonathancc

Re: [9fans] trailing newline in awk

2012-01-26 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:15 +0100, dexen deVries wrote: hi list, can't wrap my head around this: in an awk script, how to take some action if a file lacks last trailing Line Feed? i want to modify files with contents like: text LF text LF text and leave undisturbed files with

Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely

2011-02-02 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 12:50 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: Even C has a runtime. Perhaps you should look more into how programming languages are implemented :-). C++ has one too, especially in the wake of exceptions and such. really? what do you consider to be the c runtime? i don't

Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely

2011-02-02 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 13:21 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: A runtime system is just a library whose entry points are language keywords.[1] In go, dynamic allocation, threads, channels, etc. are accessed via language features, so the libraries that implement those things are considered part

Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely

2011-02-02 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 14:31 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: I don't follow. Garbage collection certainly can be done in a library (e.g., Boehm). GC is in my experience normally triggered by * Allocation --- which is a function call in C * Explicit call to the `garbage collect

Re: [9fans] Modern development language for Plan 9, WAS: Re: RESOLVED: recoving important header file rudely

2011-02-02 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 15:11 -0500, erik quanstrom wrote: start := now(); while (now() start + 2hours); You don't expect GC to be able to trigger, right? i sure do. Ah. Interesting. Who's done that? jcc

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-02 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 11:27 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Richard Miller 9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote: http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/archive/SweeneyHPG2009/TimHPG2009.pdf on p. 43/44 i believe it is claimed that one

Re: [9fans] nice quote

2009-09-02 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 13:02 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: And if you prefer a plea to authority over logic, I haven't said anything that Simon Peyton Jones hasn't himself said about Haskell. Well, I disagree quite strongly about Simon Peyton Jones about a number of things. Which I think I