Jon Harrop moron wrote:
> Only for trivial input and not for the challenge you were given.
what challenge?
> That code is evaluated once to build the scene. There is no point in
> optimizing it.
The point is optimizing your incompetence.
> That performance issue only affects trivial problems an
On Dec 8, 4:07 am, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Well, its past 'tonight' and 6 hours to go till past 'tomorrow'.
> > Where the hell is it Zah Zah?
>
> Note that this program takes several days to compute in Mathematica (even
> though it takes under four secon
On Dec 8, 5:25 pm, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lest anyone doubt that problem size is important for comparing program
> run times, consider ...
just in case there's any doubt:
Simply change these lines in Jon's program:
Main[9, 512, 4] to Main[9, 512, 4.]
and it will run faster.
A
On Dec 8, 4:56 pm, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > A moron, wrote:
> > > You failed the challenge that you were given.
>
> > you didn't give me a challenge.
>
> Thomas gave you the challenge:
>
> "What I want in
On Dec 8, 4:56 pm, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > A moron, wrote:
> > > You failed the challenge that you were given.
>
> > you didn't give me a challenge.
>
> Thomas gave you the challenge:
>
> "What I want in
Dear George Neuner,
Xah Lee wrote:
> >The phenomenon of creating code that are inefficient is proportional
> >to the highlevelness or power of the lang. In general, the higher
> >level of the lang, the less possible it is actually to produce a code
> >that is as efficie
2008-12-08
Xah Lee wrote:
> > Also, in this discussion, thanks to Thomas M Hermann's $20 offered to
> > me for my challenge to you, that i have taken the time to show working
> > code that demonstrate many problems in your code.
A moron, wrote:
> You failed the cha
On Dec 8, 5:10 am, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > For those interested in this Mathematica problem, i've now cleaned up
> > the essay with additional comments here:
>
> > • A Mathematica Optimization Problem
> >
For those interested in this Mathematica problem, i've now cleaned up
the essay with additional comments here:
• A Mathematica Optimization Problem
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/Mathematica_optimization.html
The result and speed up of my code can be verified by anyone who has
Mathema
On Dec 4, 6:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> For the interested, with MMA 6, on a Pentium 4 3.8Ghz:
>
> The code that Jon posted:
>
> Timing[Export["image-jon.pgm", [EMAIL PROTECTED]@Main[2, 100, 4]]]
> {80.565, "image-jon.pgm"}
>
> The code that Xah posted:
>
> Timing[Export["image-xah.pgm", [EMA
alright, here's my improved code, pasted near the bottom.
let me say a few things about Jon's code.
If we rate that piece of mathematica code on the level of: Beginner
Mathematica programer, Intermediate, Advanced, where Beginner is
someone who just learned tried to program Mathematica no more t
On Dec 3, 4:22 pm, "Thomas M. Hermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 5:26 pm, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Agreed. My paypal address is “xah @@@ xahlee.org”. (replace the triple
> > @ to single one.) Once you paid thru paypa
your judgement), or it turns out
Mathematica 6 is necessary, or any problem that might occure, i offer
money back guarantee.
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
On Dec 3, 2:12 pm, "Thomas M. Hermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 3:15 pm, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECT
On Dec 3, 8:24 am, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My example demonstrates several of Mathematica's fundamental limitations.
enough babble Jon.
Come flying $5 to my paypal account, and i'll give you real code,
amongest the programing tech geekers here for all to see.
I'll show, what kind
On Dec 2, 5:13 pm, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> XahLeewrote:
> > On Dec 1, 4:06 pm, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Mathematica is a whopping 700,000 times slower!
>
> > LOL Jon. r u trying to get me to do otimization for you free?
>
> > how about pay me $5 thru paypal? I'm pr
On Dec 2, 12:21 pm, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > LOL Jon. r u trying to get me to do otimization for you free?
>
> These are professional software development forums, not some script-
> kiddie cellphone-based chat room. "r" is spel
2008-12-01
On Dec 1, 4:06 pm, Jon Harrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > And on this page, there are sections where Mathematica is compared to
> > programing langs, such as C, C++, Java, and research langs Lisp,
> > ML, ..., and scripting langs Python,
On Nov 30, 7:30 pm, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wolfram Research's Mathematica Version 7 has just been released.
>
> See: http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html
>
> Among it's marketing material, it has a section on how mathematica
Wolfram Research's Mathematica Version 7 has just been released.
See:
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/index.html
Among it's marketing material, it has a section on how mathematica
compares to competitors.
http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/analysis/
And on this page, there
Great to see quality post from real expert once in a while. Thanks!
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
On Nov 29, 9:03 am, Stephane CHAZELAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> There's a common confusion in this in the nature of /bin/sh.
> There's no standard (neither POSIX nor Unix) that specifies that
> /b
On Nov 26, 4:57 pm, Kaz Kylheku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-11-26, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Can you see, how you latched your personal beef about anti software
> > crisis philosophy into this no namespace thread?
>
> I did no such thi
dumb and blind can
all still lead a happy and fruitful life.
There is no crisis!
Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/
☄
On Nov 26, 1:32 pm, Kaz Kylheku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-11-26, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.functional,comp.la
Xah Lee wrote:
> i cannot fathom what could possibly be difficult of
> introducing or implementing a namespace mechanism into a language.
Joshua Cranmer wrote:
>> Namespaces go to the very core of a language, name resolution.
>> Retroactively adding such a feature is extremely
On Nov 26, 8:42 am, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> XahLeewrote:
> >> The IT community has enough trouble getting a few ISPs to upgrade their
> >> DNS software. How are you going to get millions of general users to
> >> upgrade?
>
> > alright, that's speaks for Javascript.
>
> > But how
Xah Lee wrote:
> > i cannot fathom what could possibly be difficult of
> > introducing or implementing a namespace mechanism into a language. I
> > do not understand, why so many languages that lacks so much needed
> > namespace for so long? If it is a social probl
nked. You'll
get a survey of today's languages, what they are, what they do, their
nature, their field, and where the landscape of languages might be
tomorrow.
plain text version follows.
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Back to Computing and Its People.
Proliferation of Computing Language
On Nov 26, 5:45 am, Joshua Cranmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i cannot fathom what could possibly be difficult of
> > introducing or implementing a namespace mechanism into a language.
>
> Namespaces go to the very core of a language, name resolution.
> Retroactively adding such a feature is ex
comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.java.programmer
2008-11-25
Recently, Steve Yegge implemented Javascript in Emacs lisp, and
compared the 2 languages.
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/
http://code.google.com/p/ejacs/
One of his point is about emac
herald: Python surpasses Perl in popularity!
According to
“TIOBE Programming Community Index for November 2008” at
http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
it seems that Python has surpassed Perl in popularity this month!
Good for Python!
From my own personal experience in the pro
I offer the python community complete rewrite of the Python doc. The
resulting doc would be one of the best technical writing among Open
Source community's documentations. (a fair verification can be
obtained by polling professional writers and editor community, e.g.
staff writers of Time Mag or ot
Every few months, i receive a hearty letter about how well people
agree with my criticism of Python's docs.
(see
http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_doc_index.html
)
Here's one received this week:
--
Hello,
I landed on your website's comments about the Python doc
... continued from previous post.
PS I'm cross-posting this post to perl and python groups because i
find that it being a little know fact that emacs lisp's power in the
area of text processing, are far beyond Perl (or Python).
... i worked as a professional perl programer since 1998. I started t
Text Processing with Emacs Lisp
Xah Lee, 2007-10-29
This page gives a outline of how to use emacs lisp to do text
processing, using a specific real-world problem as example. If you
don't know elisp, first take a gander at Emacs Lisp Basics.
HTML version with links and colors is at:
TeX, in my opinion, has done massive damage to the computing world.
i have written on this variously in emails. No coherent argument, but
the basic thoughts are here:
http://xahlee.org/cmaci/notation/TeX_pestilence.html
it's slightly repeatitous there. But i think i might summarize in gist
the fe
When i first heard about distributed revision control system about 2
years ago, i heard of Darcs, which is written in Haskell. I was hugely
excited, thinking about the functional programing i love, and the no-
side effect pure system i idolize, and the technology of human animal
i rapture in daily.
Elisp Tutorial: HTML Syntax Coloring Code Block
Xah Lee, 2007-10
This page shows a example of writing a emacs lisp function that
process a block of text to syntax color it by HTML tags. If you don't
know elisp, first take a gander at Emacs Lisp Basics.
HTML version with color and links
On Sep 11, Xah Lee wrote:
i was browsinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_computer_shells
quite fucking ridiculous that it contains Python shell and Ruby shell,
and, there's no mentioning of scsh.
Fuck the schemer morons.
someone please add scsh there.
--
2007-
J. Cliff Dyer wrote:
" ...UCS-2, for example, is a fixed width, 2-byte encoding that can
handle any unicode code point up to 0x, but cannot handle the 3
and 4 byte extension sets. "
I was going to reply to say that this is a good point. But on my way i
looked up wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia
This post is about some notes and corrections to a online article
regarding unicod and python.
--
by happenstance i was reading:
Unicode HOWTO
http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode
Here's some problems i see:
・ No conspicuous authorship. (however, oddly, it has a conspicuous
ackno
On Sep 10, 5:25 am, Harshad Modi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello ,
> I make one function for encoding latin1 to utf-8. but i think it is
> not work proper.
> plz guide me.
Hi, what you want is here, including complete code:
Converting a File's "Character Set" / Encoding
http://xahlee.org/perl
Google groups seems to be stripping my quotation markslately.
Here's a retry to post my previous message.
------
Xah Lee wrote:
If i have a nested list, where the atoms are unicode strings, e.g.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
tt
On Sep 10, 8:12 am, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Xah Lee wrote:
If i have a nested list, where the atoms are unicode strings, e.g.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
ttt=[[u"→",u"↑"], [u"αβγ"],...]
print ttt
how can i print it without getting the u'\u
If i have a nested list, where the atoms are unicode strings, e.g.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
ttt=[[u"→",u"↑"], [u"αβγ"],...]
print ttt
how can i print it without getting the u'\u1234' notation?
i.e. i want it print just like this: [[u"→"], ...]
I can of course write a loop then for each string use
hi, just a quick reply.
You are right, the python version i have is really terrible.
I'll look at your solution and possibly reply later.
Thanks for your code. It's great!
Xah
On Aug 29, 9:40 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:47:27 -0700,XahLeewr
sorting a matrix (i.e. list of lists) is rather common. With
this function, i can have a single interface to deal with any list
(including list of lists).
It is ideal, that a language's function for sort actually are of this
generality.
(See “What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language”, Xah Lee,
2007-08-24
Steve Holden wrote:
«It's already well-established that there's no point flamingXahLee, as
he's pretty much an output-only source. See any responses from him on
this thread?»
Hum? so you want to dance?
FYI, i have made a second post to this thread. See:
http://groups.google.com/group/
Dear computing comrades,
Today, i'd like to show you a piece of literature written by a eminent
mathematician Edsger W Dijkstra.
Here's 2 interesting quote from his letter:
“The prevaling attitude was reflected in the creation of two literary
figures — admittedly of rather poor literature, but n
The following is a FAQ from emacs modernization
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html
Q: Emacs's undo is superior, because the prevalent Undo/Redo system
actually loss info.
A: Emac's undo is very confusing and does not have a Redo command. To
redo after a undo, people are told to type somet
The following article a extended version of previous post.
A HTML version can be found at
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_kb_shortcuts_pain.html
---
WHY EMACS'S KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ARE PAINFUL
Xah Lee, 2007-07
A important aspect in designing a keyboard shortcu
Why Emacs's Keyboard Shortcuts Are Painful
Xah Lee, 2007-07
A important aspect in designing keyboard shortcuts is to have keyboard
shortcuts for those most frequently used commands, and, the most
frequently used commands should have most easily-pressed keystrokes.
For example, they should
About a month ago, i posted a message about modernization of emacs. I
enlisted several items that i think emacs should adapt.
Today I added another section to the frequestly asked questions.
The new section is pasted below. The full article can be found at
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.htm
Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about The Modernization of
Emacs.
They are slightly lengthy, so i've separated each item per post. The
whole article can be found at
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html
Q: Aquamacs already does what you want.
A: Aquamacs is a emacs var
Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about The Modernization of
Emacs.
They are slightly lengthy, so i've separated each item per post. The
whole article can be found at
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html
Q: Emacs's ways are technically superior. It should not change.
A:
Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about The Modernization of
Emacs.
They are slightly lengthy, so i've separated each item per post. The
whole article can be found at
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html
Q: Why should emacs want to be popular and why should emacs change
Here are some Frequently Asked Questions about The Modernization of
Emacs.
They are slightly lengthy, so i've separated each item per post. The
whole article can be found at
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html
Q: The Terminology “buffer” and “keybinding” is good as they are.
[this post is a excerpt from
The Modernization of Emacs, Xah Lee, 2006-04 at
http://xahlee.org/emacs/modernization.html
]
The Modernization of Emacs
THE PROBLEM
Emacs is a great editor. It is perhaps the most powerful and most
versatile text editor. And
Prefix, Infix, Postfix notations in Mathematica
2000-02-21, 2007-05
[In the following essay, I discuss prefix, infix, postfix notations
and Mathematica's syntax for them. The full HTML formatted article is
available at:
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/notations.html
]
THE HEAD OF EXPRESS
The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully
Functional Notations
Xah Lee, 2006-03-15
[This articles explains away the confusion of common terms for
notation systems used in computer languages: prefix, infix, postfix,
algebraic, functional. These notation's relation t
Nameless wrote:
«
Python has readable syntax, a huge library, and bindings for what
seems like every major in linux. Perl has CPAN. It seems with those
languages if you want to do something all you have to do is import
functionality from a library someone had written and use that.
In lisp you'd ha
Xah Lee wrote:
«
...
“Ignorance And Intolerance In Online Computing Communities”
http://xahlee.org/Netiquette_dir/ignorance_intolerance.html
... As i have indicated in my post, it is non-trivial to implement a
function that returns the positive angle of a vector
»
I have now coded this. I
Today, a motherfucker Christophe Rhodes (aka Xof in irc://chat.freenode.net/lisp
) kicked banned me.
Here's the few relevant excerpt. (full, unedited excerpt will be
published if there is a public interest)
Begin excerpt:
[5:31am] k, here is a simple problem but rather tedious to do
it correctly
In this article, i explain how the use of bit masks is a hack in many
imperative languages.
Often, a function will need to take many True/False parameters. For
example, suppose i have a function that can draw a rainbow, and each
color of the rainbow can be turned on or off individually. My functio
2007-03-29
Dear tech geekers,
In a couple of posts in the past year i have crossed-posted (e.g.
recently “What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities”, “is laziness a
programer's virtue?”, “On Java's Interface (the meaning of interface
in computer programing)” ), there are a some controversy, and lot
Dear Ken,
I want to thank you for your spirit in supporting and leading the lisp
community, in spreading lisp the language both in what you have done
technically as well as evangelization, as well as the love and
knowledge attitude towards newsgroup communities in general, in part
thru your numero
Laziness, Perl, and Larry Wall
Xah Lee, 20021124
In the unix community there's quite a large confusion and wishful
thinking about the word laziness. In this post, i'd like to make some
clarifications.
American Heritage Dictionary third edition defines laziness as:
“Resistant to work o
REQUIREMENTS FOR A VISUALIZATION SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR 2010
Xah Lee, 2007-03-16
In this essay, i give a list of requirements that i think is necessary
for a software system for creating scientific visualization for the
next decade (2007-2017).
(for a HTML version with images, please see
http
What are OOP's Jargons and Complexities
Xah Lee, 20050128
Classes, Methods, Objects
In computer languages, often a function definition looks like this:
subroutine f (x1, x2, ...) {
variables ...
do this or that
}
In advanced languages such as LISP family, it is not uncommon to
d
On Java's Interface
Xah Lee, 20050223
In Java the language, there's this a keyword “interface”.
In a functional language, a function can be specified by its name and
parameter specs. For example:
f(3)
f(3, [9,2])
f("some string")
are usage examples of 3 functions all havin
Xah Lee wrote in 2006-12-22:
> Of Interest:
>
> Introduction to 3D Graphics Programing
> http://xahlee.org/3d/index.html
Folks, i have expanded my tutorial to several pages in the past nearly
two months, and thank you very much for those who have given
encouragement.
I had plans to
Here's their license:
http://www.vpython.org/webdoc/visual/license.txt
I read it wrong before.
Thanks for correction.
This is superb! I'll be looking into vpython!
Xah
Ravi Teja wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
>
> > Regarding VisualPython... i saw a demo in 2002 by a professor
far as i know, Mathematica is the platform that allows one to do
graphics programing. But, i think Flash probably is another platform
that does it. And i think VisualPython is also.
I'm interested in other platforms that allows one to do this.
Xah
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
∑ http://xahlee.org/
J
Of Interest:
Introduction to 3D Graphics Programing
http://xahlee.org/3d/index.html
Currently, this introduction introduces you to the graphics format of
Mathematica, and two Java Applet utilities that allows you to view them
with live rotation in a web browser. Also, it includes a introductory
t
Logo LISP
Xah Lee, 2006-12
Ken Tilton wrote:
«Small problem. You forget that Ron Garret wants us to change the
name of Common Lisp as the sure-fire way to make it more popular (well,
hang on, he says it is necessary, not sufficient. Anyway...) I do not
think we can safely pick a new logo
eds a logo, i'll post a reply to this
thread wthin a month.
Xah
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
∑ http://xahlee.org/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Oct 28, 10:24 pm, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have brought this topic here here before... that i think LISP really
recently on #emacs irc of freenode, there's a discussion of a logo of
planet emacsen site.
I made some comments about such logo:
http://paste.lisp.org/display/28901
I have brought this topic here here before... that i think LISP really
need to have a logo. I'm aware of “made with alien technolog
Barry Margolin wrote:
« For Lisp, just look for symbols that are immediately preceded by (
...»
Thanks a lot! great thought.
I've done accordingly, which counts satisfactorily.
http://xahlee.org/emacs/function-frequency.html
Will take a break and think about Perl, Python, Java later... For
Pyth
I had a idea today.
I wanted to know what are the top most frequently used functions in the
emacs lisp language. I thought i can write a quick script that go thru
all the elisp library locations and get a word-frequency report i want.
I started with a simple program:
http://xahlee.org/p/titus/cou
Computer Language Popularity Trend
This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as
indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a
comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of
popularity trends.
http://xahlee.org/lang_traf/index.html
Xah
Xah Lee wrote:
« the Python regex documentation is available at:
http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_re-write/lib/module-re.html ...»
Jürgen Exner wrote:
«Yeah, sure, and the Perl regex documentation is available at 'perldoc
perlre'. So what? Is that anything new or surprising?»
the Python regex documentation is available at:
http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_re-write/lib/module-re.html
Note that, i've just made the terms of use clear.
Also, can anyone answer what is the precise terms of license of the
official python documentation? The official python.org doc site is
i just want to make it known that i think most if not all of the
replies in this thread are of not much technical value. They are either
wrong and or misleading, and the perl module mentioned about sorting or
the Java language aspect on sorting, as they are discussed or
represented, are rather stup
can anyone give me a guide about writing a short elisp function? (for
non-emacs readers, this message will describe a editor feature i think
will be very beneficial to spread this concept.)
i want to write a function such that, when run, highlight a region
between the nearest left and right delimi
Languages to Hate, Xah Lee, 2002
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/language_to_hate.html
Xah
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http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Hi all,
in the past years, i have written few hundreds of essays and tutorials
on computing. Now, i've but a index page to this collection:
http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/skami_prosa.html
many of these, originated from online forum. The writing style is
enticing and the content astute.
al
Languages with Full Unicode Support
As far as i know, Java and JavaScript are languages with full, complete
unicode support. That is, they allow names to be defined using unicode.
(the JavaScript engine used by FireFox support this)
As far as i know, here's few other lang's status:
C → No.
Pytho
Interactive Find and Replace String Patterns on Multiple Files
Xah Lee, 2006-06
Suppose you need to do find and replace of a string pattern, for all
files in a directory. However, you do not want to replace all of them.
You need to look at it in a case-by-case basis. What can you do?
Answer
ive
of extraneous concepts in languages, i'll have to write a essay in
detail some other day.
Thanks for the summary.
Is there no one else who are able to read that paper?
Xah
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
∑ http://xahlee.org/
> Xah Lee wrote:
> > in March, i posted a essay "
in March, i posted a essay “What is Expressiveness in a Computer
Language”, archived at:
http://xahlee.org/perl-python/what_is_expresiveness.html
I was informed then that there is a academic paper written on this
subject.
On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages, by Matthias
Felleisen, 19
The Nature of the “Unix Philosophy”
Xah Lee, 2006-05
In the computing industry, especially among unix community, we often
hear that there's a “Unix Philosophy”. In this essay, i dissect the
nature and characterization of such “unix philosophy”, as have been
described by Brian Kernighan, Rob
f you do know
a web hosting company that can take some 80 G of bandwidth/month for
less than $25 a month, please let me know! (i do hope if someone here
runs a hosting business and can host my site. I will certainly return
the favor.)
Thanks.
Xah
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
∑ http://xahlee.org/
Xa
The Condition of Industrial Programers
Xah Lee, 2006-05
Before i stepped into the computing industry, my first industrial
programing experience is at Wolfram Research Inc as a intern in 1995.
(Wolfram Research is famously known for their highly successful
flagship product Mathematica) I thought
I'm sorry to trouble everyone. But as you might know, due to my
controversial writings and style, recently John Bokma lobbied people to
complaint to my web hosting provider. After exchanging a few emails, my
web hosting provider sent me a 30-day account cancellation notice last
Friday.
I'm not sur
o replace all spaces to tabs. But
also, many unix languages contains a so-called construct of
“heredoc” as a mean to embed a literal block of text. For example,
here's a PHP construct of heredoc:
$novelText = <<http://xahlee.org/
Xah Lee wrote:
> Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code
>
Software Needs Philosophers
by Steve Yegge, 2006-04-15.
Software needs philosophers.
This thought has been nagging at me for a year now, and recently it's
been growing like a tumor. One that plenty of folks on the 'net would
love to see kill me.
People don't put much stock in philosophers these
Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code
Xah Lee, 2006-05-13
In coding a computer program, there's often the choices of tabs or
spaces for code indentation. There is a large amount of confusion about
which is better. It has become what's known as “religious war” —
a heated fight over trivi
i've long time been interested in algorithmic mathematical art. That
is, mathematical or algorithmic visual art works that are generated by
computer such that the program's source code reflects the algorithmic
essence of the visual quality in the art work. (for detail, see
Algorithmic Mathematical
Python, Lambda, and Guido van Rossum
Xah Lee, 2006-05-05
In this post, i'd like to deconstruct one of Guido's recent blog about
lambda in Python.
In Guido's blog written in 2006-02-10 at
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358
is first of all, the title “Languag
Addendum:
Recently I ran into this egregious propaganda:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/multimedia/video/obp/IntroducingPython.mpg
folks, take a look. This is a significant part how things move in the
computing community.
Xah
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What Languages to Hate
Xah Lee, 20020718
Dear lisp comrades and other concerned parties,
First, all languages have equal rights. Do not belittle other languages
just because YOUR favorite language is a bit better in this aspect or
that. Different people have different ideas and manners of
Dear John Bokma,
This is a public notice that what you are trying to do is getting close
to harrassment from the law's perspective.
Thanks.
Xah
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John Bokma wrote:
> Eli Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Oh, God, not another one.
>
> Instead
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