Re: active stack

2009-07-10 Thread Beat Cornaz
Thanks Beranard, Malte and Mark for your suggestions. I will try them and see which will fit best. Just to answer Bernard Malte's questions : Stack A and B and Indicator are all substacks (all the stacks mentioned are normal substacks, except the 'Indicator' which is also a substack, but

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Len Morgan
Now TWO weeks and not a peep. Any kind of update on the progress? For future reference: I would have been far happier getting a surprise email letting me know a beta was available than getting told one would be available and then not seeing it. Sometimes, ignorance IS bliss. Kevin Miller

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread kl...@major.on-rev.com
Hi Len, Now TWO weeks and not a peep. Any kind of update on the progress? For future reference: I would have been far happier getting a surprise email letting me know a beta was available than getting told one would be available and then not seeing it. Sometimes, ignorance IS bliss.

in defense of Pascal

2009-07-10 Thread Sadhunathan Nadesan
Here in Plovdiv they teach High School kids PASCAL, which is, unless you are some sort of retro-geek, a major turn-off. I shall, very shortly, become a pusher for RR, and be trotting round the school giving demos of just what can be done. Alternate point of view: I love Pascal. Just like

filter not working

2009-07-10 Thread pwf
I am having a problem with 'filter'. I'm passing this tab return delimited data (as an array)... *SAMPLE*7/2/09 2 We don't ship kitties to Hong Kong No dogs 7/2/09 1 we don't do dogs This one7/2/09 3 This one is that oneAnd this one has paragraphs in the

Re: in defense of Pascal

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Yes, I see your point; although I prefer BASIC in this respect. Sadhunathan Nadesan wrote: Here in Plovdiv they teach High School kids PASCAL, which is, unless you are some sort of retro-geek, a major turn-off. I shall, very shortly, become a pusher for RR, and be trotting round the school

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi Len, Now TWO weeks and not a peep. Any kind of update on the progress? For future reference: I would have been far happier getting a surprise email letting me know a beta was available than getting told one would be available and then not seeing it.

Re: in defense of Pascal

2009-07-10 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Richmond and other BASIC enthusiasts: In case you've missed it, FutureBasic (originally ZBasic many years ago) is now Freeware and has morphed into a FBtoC version. Downloads available at: http://www.4toc.com/fb/index.htm Joe Wilkins On Jul 10, 2009, at 7:30 AM, Richmond Mathewson

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jul 10, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Edinburgh is NOT in the highlands; except for people who think that Munchen is in Lower Saxony. :) The Castle is on a hill though. Maybe that's Kevin's house? ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Mark Schonewille
Yup, and the programmers are kept in the dungeons inside the hill. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com Snapper Screen Recorder 2.1 http://snapper.economy-x-talk.com If you sent me an e-mail before 21 June and haven't

Re: filter not working

2009-07-10 Thread Mark Smith
Paul, the filter command may need some wildcards, otherwise it will filter out any lines which contain more than just the filter expression, so: filter pSnips with * tThing * Best, Mark On 3 Jul 2009, at 20:39, pwf wrote: I am having a problem with 'filter'. I'm passing this tab

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Bill Marriott
Patience, grasshopper :) You wouldn't want a plugin that opened your computer to security threats or crashed your browser would you? I'm not saying Beta 1 won't do those things, but they won't be as obvious or frequent. Keep in mind we also are supporting the following platforms: Safari Mac

Re: in defense of Pascal

2009-07-10 Thread Andre Garzia
Aum Sadhunthan, I also learned programming with PASCAL, it was Turbo Pascal with it's yellow on black interface that got me into programming. I remember creating dice rollers for my RPG stuff when I was a kid... :D On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Sadhunathan Nadesansa...@sddev.castandcrew.com

Re: in defense of Pascal

2009-07-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
Well one overlooked advantage to teaching a hard language out of the gate is to weed out the wannabe's. A lot of kids would love to be programmers, until they see how much work and time it takes to get very good at it. Only those gifted ought to go on to be the programmers of the future,

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Richmond, kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi Len, Now TWO weeks and not a peep. Any kind of update on the progress? For future reference: I would have been far happier getting a surprise email letting me know a beta was available than getting told one would be available and then not

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
I thought 2 weeks was the standard release date for ANY software in development? No matter when the question is asked, 2 weeks is the answer. Bob Sneidar IT Manager Logos Management Calvary Chapel CM On Jul 10, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, kl...@major.on-rev.com

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi Len, Now TWO weeks and not a peep. Any kind of update on the progress? For future reference: I would have been far happier getting a surprise email letting me know a beta was available than getting told one would be

Re: in defense of Pascal

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Bob Sneidar wrote: Well one overlooked advantage to teaching a hard language out of the gate is to weed out the wannabe's. Not any longer; in our politically correct, all-inclusive times we have to say thet 'Epsilon semi-morons' code differently (err, or like Steve Jobs, we might say code

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Marian Petrides
Well, even though I have NEVER been known for waiting patiently for anything, I'm actually glad to have been told a tentative target date for the beta--it makes it easier for me to see the light at the end of the tunnel. ;-) Marian On Jul 10, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Bill Marriott wrote:

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Richmond, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi Len, Now TWO weeks and not a peep. Any kind of update on the progress? For future reference: I would have been far happier getting a surprise email letting me know a beta was available than getting told one

Re: in defense of Pascal

2009-07-10 Thread Marian Petrides
Oh, yeah, joy and rapture. (NOT) Three steps before you can even use a simple variable--how wonderful. Alas, those of us who were brain- damaged early in life by BASIC don't have the patience for Pascal (or at least I never have!). Quick and (not so) dirty wins the race!! On Jun 25,

Referring to chars by decimal or hex numbers ????

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Hey - Ho, bringing a discussion initiated by Sivakatirswami (or the fall out from it) slightly more mainstream: There are a number of writing systems that require characters for which there are neither spaces in the unicode tables nor room enough in the ASCII system. Font for these writing

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi Len, Now TWO weeks and not a peep. Any kind of update on the progress? For future reference: I would have been far happier getting a surprise email letting me know a beta was available

Re: in defense of Pascal

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sadhunathan Nadesan wrote: snip It enforces excellent habits what are those habits? such as strong typing Ha, Ha, I learnt that bashing away on Mum's Olivetti portable (actually its a smashing typewriter) when I did my B.A. which then carry over into other languages. I honestly cannot

Re: Referring to chars by decimal or hex numbers ????

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Well, I hacked open a Devanagari font and shifted all the non-Unicode chars to Supplementary Private Use Area-A (Plane 15): http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/private_use_f.html and felt extremely pleased with myself for being so clever . . . but pride always comes before a fall . . .

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Judy Perry
She's a historical fiction writer. Judy On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Au contraire, mon ami! As all readers of Diana Gabaldon's books know, scotland IS the synonym for the highlands :-D Who ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Rev 4 beta status

2009-07-10 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Richmond, kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Hi Len, Now TWO weeks and not a peep. Any kind of update on the progress? For future reference: I would have been far happier getting a surprise email letting me know a beta was available

Sending data to eMail client

2009-07-10 Thread Robert Earp
Does anybody know if there is a way in Rev to send data to the Reply To: field of an eMail client, and also selecting the Signature block ? I'm trying to create a Rev based tool to send eMail to a number of people on a mailing list (same message to all recipients) and I use Apple Mail.

Re: Referring to chars by decimal or hex numbers ????

2009-07-10 Thread Peter W A Wood
Richmond Supplementary Private Use Area-A [not that funny place in the USA where aliens have been landing] starts at Unicode hex U+F [funny how that says 'UFO' in code. But I digress . . .] (that's 983040 in decimal numbers) so merrily tried set the useUnicode to true put