Re: [FRIAM] Emergence - a definition

2010-07-23 Thread Pamela McCorduck
I'll drink to that. On Jul 22, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: Finally! A definition of emergence. A formalism for almost all. 'Emergence' is 33% Grenache Blanc, 29% Marsanne, 25% Viognier and 13% Roussanne and was available from Trader Joes for about $7 a bottle. Bonne

[FRIAM] An Oil-Independent Future

2010-07-23 Thread Jochen Fromm
The last eight presidents have promised on TV to move America towards an oil-independent future.. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-16-2010/an-energy-independent-future ..but it has not happened yet. Probably we won't be able to get rid of oil until no oil is left. The biggest and most

[FRIAM] The Go Programming Language

2010-07-23 Thread Owen Densmore
Has anyone tried Google's go language? http://golang.org/ Google makes the same case for it as chrome: its been 10 years since a system language has been created! Mainly the concern is multi-core gc and an architecture for large distributed systems. I just installed on my macbook:

Re: [FRIAM] The Go Programming Language

2010-07-23 Thread Russ Abbott
This came up a while ago. At that time I compared it to Haskellhttp://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/index.php/Courses/CS_332F/Fall_2009#Google.27s_new_Go_.C2.A0_programming_language . -- Russ Abbott __ Professor, Computer Science California State University, Los

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] The Go Programming Language

2010-07-23 Thread Roger Critchlow
Rob Pike made a presentation at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference yesterday slamming Java and C++ as part of explaining how the Go Language came about. http://infoworld.com/d/developer-world/google-executive-frustrated-java-c-complexity-375

Re: [FRIAM] [sfx: Discuss] The Go Programming Language

2010-07-23 Thread Roger Critchlow
Oh, I see Pike gave two other talks at OSCON, no video but pdfs of the slides: Go http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/15464 http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/15464 Another Go at Language Design http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/14760