On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 04:58:11PM -0800, Matthew Cline wrote:
> What's the URL for the RFC archive?
http://dev.perl.org/rfc/
Z.
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:25:10AM +, Alan Burlison wrote:
> Shame it only works with the Sun compilers.
See also Boehm's garbage collector, which is rather more portable:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
"The collector uses a mark-sweep algorithm. It provides incremental
What's the URL for the RFC archive?
Thanks in advance.
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Matthew Cline| Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose that
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| myself. -- Mark Twain
Documentation excerpt:
With Sun WorkShop Memory Monitor, you can program without calling free()
or delete. Determining when to call free() or delete is difficult.
Studies indicate that 30% to 40% of programmer time is spent on memory
management in C or C++ programs. Failing to release memory cau
Alan Burlison wrote:
> I've attached the HTML
Well it was there when I sent it... does this list strip attachments or
something?
Here is is as badly-formatted text - sorry!
Alan Burlison
Appendix A: How Sun WorkShop Memory Monitor Works
Memory management in C/C++ is both time consuming an
Simply Hao wrote:
> > Douglas Adams does seem rather more appropriate a source of quotes
> > for software (anyone's, alas) than Pratchett.
>
> But Adams already has a software company.
And Sirius pioneered the GPP in Perl 6.
> Douglas Adams does seem rather more appropriate a source of quotes
> for software (anyone's, alas) than Pratchett.
But Adams already has a software company.
-Hao
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:17:25 + Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:43:11PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > My name (Merijn) is *from* Tolkien's dutch translation, so I'm a little biases
> > if I state: "Stick with Tolkien". Well, I'm of to Mordor now ...
>
>
David Mitchell wrote:
> 4. Are we all agreed that in addition to anything else (eg rfc281), at
> least some of the standard commentary should appear actually within the
> src file itself?
s/at least some/most, if not all/
> 5. Do *all* these comments need to be extractable, or only ones related
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:43:11PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> My name (Merijn) is *from* Tolkien's dutch translation, so I'm a little biases
> if I state: "Stick with Tolkien". Well, I'm of to Mordor now ...
http://www.prembone.com/mythtakes/shiresong.html
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:18:31 + Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:06:49PM +, David Mitchell wrote:
> > > > And what about us poor semi-literates who've never heard of Yojimbo ???
> > > > If we can't go with Tolkien, I'd vote for Pratchett, 'cause *everyo
At 06:18 PM 02-20-2001 +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>As long as Terry Pratchett writes books faster than perl consumes quotes.
>Based on the fact that he's still very alive, we aren't in danger yet.
True... And he has some very good quotes.
>However, Larry has already commented on the danger of
At 07:52 PM 2/20/2001 +0200, Roman M. Parparov wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:57:10PM +, David Mitchell wrote:
> > > Do we want to go with Tolkein quotes for perl 6 and, if so, who wants to
> > > put together a list of good ones? It's been ages since I've read the
> books,
> > > and I'm l
At 05:57 PM 2/20/2001 +, David Mitchell wrote:
> > Do we want to go with Tolkein quotes for perl 6 and, if so, who wants to
> > put together a list of good ones? It's been ages since I've read the
> books,
> > and I'm likely to pull quotes from other places anyway. (Usagi Yojimbo
> > strikes
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:06:49PM +, David Mitchell wrote:
> > > And what about us poor semi-literates who've never heard of Yojimbo ???
> > > If we can't go with Tolkien, I'd vote for Pratchett, 'cause *everyone*'s
> > > read him :-)
> >
> > Adams rather than Pratchett, I'd think. :)
>
> B
> > And what about us poor semi-literates who've never heard of Yojimbo ???
> > If we can't go with Tolkien, I'd vote for Pratchett, 'cause *everyone*'s
> > read him :-)
>
> Adams rather than Pratchett, I'd think. :)
But Pratchet has 20+ books to his credit, so we need never run out of quotes
:-
> Do we want to go with Tolkein quotes for perl 6 and, if so, who wants to
> put together a list of good ones? It's been ages since I've read the books,
> and I'm likely to pull quotes from other places anyway. (Usagi Yojimbo
> strikes me as a good place to yank from, as does Zot!, but Pratchet
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:57:10PM +, David Mitchell wrote:
> > Do we want to go with Tolkein quotes for perl 6 and, if so, who wants to
> > put together a list of good ones? It's been ages since I've read the books,
> > and I'm likely to pull quotes from other places anyway. (Usagi Yojimbo
At 04:50 PM 2/20/2001 +, David Mitchell wrote:
> > Tolkien quotes are mandatory?
> >
> > perl5's globals.c malloc.c perlio.c perly.c universal.c xsutils.c
> > definitely fail then.
>
>Sounds like some urgent patches need submitting to p5p ;-)
Do we want to go with Tolkein quotes for perl 6 an
> Tolkien quotes are mandatory?
>
> perl5's globals.c malloc.c perlio.c perly.c universal.c xsutils.c
> definitely fail then.
Sounds like some urgent patches need submitting to p5p ;-)
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 10:49, David Mitchell wrote:
> Regarding comments in code:
> 2. Is this the time and place to discuss it?
Certainly before we actually begin coding
>
> 3. Should the result of the discusssion be a PDD?
Yes.
>
> 5. Do *all* these comments need to be extractable
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 03:49:44PM +, David Mitchell wrote:
> 4. Are we all agreed that in addition to anything else (eg rfc281), at
> least some of the standard commentary should appear actually within the
> src file itself?
quote from someone recently "separate documentation is no documenta
Regarding comments in code:
Chopping and misquoting wildly
Jarkko Hietaniemi said:
* I would define a relatively strict and standard way to do this so that
the documentation can be extracted out.
* lets avoid a markup-up flamewar
Simon Cozens said:
* I'd like to see Perl 6 written as a li
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