Re: math symbols in unicode (grouped by purpose)

2010-08-15 Thread Kenneth Tilton
On 8/13/2010 5:18 PM, Xah Lee wrote: some collection of math symbols in unicode. • Math Symbols in Unicode http://xahlee.org/comp/unicode_math_operators.html I am surprised you do not include the numeric character codes. kt • Arrows in Unicode http://xahlee.org/comp/unicode_arrows.ht

Re: Fascinating interview by Richard Stallman at KTH on emacs history and internals

2010-07-18 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message , Nick Keighley wrote: On 16 July, 09:24, Mark Tarver wrote: On 15 July, 23:21, bolega wrote: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/stallman-kth.html RMS lecture at KTH (Sweden), 30 October 1986 did you really have to post all of this... read more »...

Re: death of newsgroups (Microsoft closing their newsgroups)

2010-07-14 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:24:12 -0400, Kenneth Tilton wrote: The moral? If you look for the spam, you'll find it. And if you *don't* look for spam, you can be sure that some goose will reply to it and get it past your filters. Thanks for that Kenneth, i

Re: death of newsgroups (Microsoft closing their newsgroups)

2010-07-13 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Xah Lee wrote: • Death of Newsgroups http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ2/death_of_newsgroups.html plain text version follows. -- Death of Newsgroups Xah Lee, 2010-07-13 Microsoft is closing down their newsgroups. See: microsoft.public.win

Re: Which is the best implementation of LISP family of languages for real world programming ?

2010-06-10 Thread Kenneth Tilton
bolega wrote: Which is the best implementation of LISP family of languages for real world programming ? http://wiki.alu.org/Implementation Kindly pick one from commercial and one from open-source . ACL and SBCL The criteria is : libraries, gui interface and builder, libraries for TCP, and

Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-02 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: Kenneth Tilton writes: Xah Lee wrote: Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator, context, detail, see bottom of: • A Lambda Logo Tour http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/lambda_logo.html Don't do that! If you want to watch the

Re: Haskell's new logo, and the idiocy of tech geekers

2009-10-02 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Xah Lee wrote: Haskell has a new logo. A fantastic one. Beautiful. For creator, context, detail, see bottom of: • A Lambda Logo Tour http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/lambda_logo.html Cool survey, and yes, that is a nice new one for Haskell. I saw beauty the other day changing an applicati

Re: OT: unix to Windows technology

2009-07-08 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Xah Lee wrote: Dear unixers & lispers, i've been using Mac for the past 19 years, and been a professional sys admin or web app developers on the unix platform, since 1998 (maily Solaris, Apache, Perl, Java, SQL, PHP). In june, i bought a PC (not for the first time though), and made a switch to W

Re: The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering

2009-06-07 Thread Kenneth Tilton
verec wrote: On 2009-06-05 21:03:33 +0100, Kenneth Tilton said: When progress stops we will have time to polish our systems, not before. Is that an endorsement of mediocrity? No, of General Patton. hth, kt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering

2009-06-05 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Xah Lee wrote: On Jun 3, 11:50 pm, Xah Lee wrote: Of interest: • The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/programer_frustration.html Addendum: The point in these short examples is not about software bugs or problems. It illustrates, how seemi

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-10 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Craig Allen wrote: There you go: a 30-second psychological diagnosis by an electrical engineer based entirely on Usenet postings. It doesn't get much more worthless than that... -- Grant rolf but interesting post nonetheless. I have been really somewhat fascinated by AS since I heard of it a

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-09 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote: Larry Gates wrote: On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:09:52 +, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote: Well, don't worry - nobody is going to ban you from Usenet (except possibly the Chinese govt). OTOH, nobody here much cares. So, rant on - it's what

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-09 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Roedy Green wrote: On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 14:52:02 -0800 (PST), Xah Lee wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : I consider this post relevant because i've been perennially gossiped about in comp.lang.* groups today and in the past 5 or 10 years, many of the threads mentioning my name

Re: Why not Ruby?

2009-01-01 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Richard Riley wrote: Jason Rumney writes: On Jan 1, 3:12 pm, r wrote: The man lives in a world driven by common sense "Common" sense suggests that his views are shared among the general populace. I don't see much evidence of that in the sometimes never- ending threads that frequently follo

Re: Why not Ruby?

2009-01-01 Thread Kenneth Tilton
s...@netherlands.com wrote: On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:16:41 -0500, Kenneth Tilton wrote: Xah Lee wrote: Just spent 3 hours looking into Ruby today. Here's my short impression for those interested. * Why Not Ruby? http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/why_not_Ruby.html plain text ve

Re: Why not Ruby?

2008-12-31 Thread Kenneth Tilton
Xah Lee wrote: > Just spent 3 hours looking into Ruby today. Here's my short impression > for those interested. > > * Why Not Ruby? > http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/why_not_Ruby.html > > plain text version follows: > -- > > Why Not Ruby? > > Xah Le