Hi Jonathan,
On 09/12/2015 06:04 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
Hi tilt!
Is this a serious response? I ask because the other candidates
-- an obscure language and a dead language-- were not.
If so tell me which dialect to use.
No, it's *not* a serious response. Had i been serious, i had
Guile it is.
Just so we're clear-- I am assuming you understand why I want to do this, and
that you will defend the choice of language against bike-shedders and Socratic
bombers. (Though of course you don't have to defend my actual code.) If both
those assumptions are true then I'll get
Hi Jonathan,
no please! I was kidding, as indicated by smileys interleaved with my
postings! :-D
BTW if you have the time to do it, and if you think it brings you
something, why should a random guy from the internet like i be the one
who gives thumbs up or down?
Should it be your serious
Hi,
On 09/12/2015 12:52 PM, tilt! wrote:
> [...]
> I will think about this a bit more, but currently it converges
> towards a SUID helper and a separately configured directory for
> refcounts.
Here's my shot at it:
https://git.devuan.org/tilt/xdg-compat
It uses a setuid-bit-executable that
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 04:04:14PM +, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> Hi tilt!Is this a serious response? I ask because the other
> candidates-- an obscure language and a dead language-- were not.
Programming language popularity is more a matter of fashion than
technical excellence.
Modula 3
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 01:49:57AM +0200, aitor_czr wrote:
> It was not Pascal the successor of Modula?
Pascal cne after Algol W. Modula came after Pascal. Modula 2 came
after Modula. Oberon came after Modula 2. All these languages were
designed by Niklaus Wirth.
Modula 3 was creted by
It was not Pascal the successor of Modula?
El 12/09/15 a las 22:38, Hendrik Boom escribió:
Modula 3 isn't dead. Moribund, maybe, but not dead. And it easily
beats a number of madly popular languages for systems programming.
Its one of the few languages I've used in
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 08:38:40PM +, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> It depends completely on the random guy. :)
> If you were a knowledgeable advocate of Guile and saw the same risks of
> "winging it" with C strings, then there'd now be at least two devs with a
> vested interest in a port of the
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 10:32:13PM +0200, tilt! wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 09/12/2015 12:52 PM, tilt! wrote:
> > [...]
> > I will think about this a bit more, but currently it converges
> > towards a SUID helper and a separately configured directory for
> > refcounts.
>
> Here's my shot at it:
>
>
> On September 12, 2015 at 10:36 PM Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 01:49:57AM +0200, aitor_czr wrote:
> > It was not Pascal the successor of Modula?
>
> Pascal cne after Algol W. Modula came after Pascal. Modula 2 came
> after Modula. Oberon came
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 03:50:57AM +0200, aitor_czr wrote:
> I recomend you to eat a pizza with Jaromil
>
:) How do you know I have not had a pizza with Jaromil already?
HND
KatolaZ
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On Fri, 2015-09-11 at 22:34 +0200, aitor_czr wrote:
> You are right Edward, i was thinking in the transposition matrix.
>
> > El 11/09/15 a las 19:32, Edward Bartolo escribió:
> >
> >
> > > only square matrices can
> > > have an inverse
If a square matrix is singular, i.e. the determinant is
Hi Isaac,
On 09/11/2015 09:30 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 11:23:38AM +0200, tilt! wrote:
Unadressed remains the lifecycle of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR,
>> specifically: [...]
>> * When is $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR created?
>> [...]
Currently my best guess is that this should be
On 09/11/2015 08:57 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> [...]
To anyone else mortified by this thread: name any of the obviously
preferable languages for this job and I'll try my hand at porting to
that language. I can't guarantee I'll know exactly what I'm doing,
but I can guarantee that an entire
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 05:30:23PM +0200, tilt! wrote:
> On 09/11/2015 08:57 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> > [...]
> >To anyone else mortified by this thread: name any of the obviously
> >preferable languages for this job and I'll try my hand at porting to
> >that language. I can't guarantee I'll
On 12/09/2015 15:22, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> At least, not to be shut down by the changes; amprolla might stll
> need to be changed if the Debian repository structure changes in
> order to get the most recent packages.
The structure didn't change, other sections of the archive still have
the
Hendrik Boom writes:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 06:57:04PM +, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>> Wow, we've gone from "I don't understand c strings" to "let me explain them
>> using matrices".
>>
>> To anyone else mortified by this thread: name any of the obviously
>>
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