IRC log started Wed Jan 12 00:00:01 2000 for tunes, who knows for tunes, who cares -:- water_ [water@tnt-10-29.tscnet.net] has joined #tunes [msg(TUNES)] permlog 2000.0112 For tunes, SOMETHING! * water_/#tunes checks logs Ok, how many times in the logs have I said ok or hmm? * water_/#tunes doesn't care -:- SignOff water: #TUNES (Ping timeout for water[tnt-10-29.tscnet.net]) -:- water_ is now known as water hmmm... so the tunes post would just be fyi, then? sure seems odd since tunes.org hosts the page of course i could probably get my own domain if necessary uhh www.slate.org ain't the usual site i wonder if i could persuade them to move to slatefamily.org? ok slate.com -> M$N darn, slate.net doesn't look up for grabs either * eihrul/#tunes ponders why someone leaves family pictures up such a domain. enuf domain'ing yeah ok hehe :( 12:10am a family domain called slate? uh, ok -:- SignOff eihrul: #TUNES ([x]chat) this site sucks 12:20am -:- _ruiner_ [DIY@ppp416.wi.centurytel.net] has joined #tunes -:- _ruiner_ [DIY@ppp416.wi.centurytel.net] has left #tunes [] * water/#tunes continues to write e-mails ok ok, beta's out 12:40am why? the announce to the beta mlist OIC heh I thought you ment that beta was out as an option oh So it did sound weird 12:50am a similar one just went to the self list ok (you don't have to say ok) ok 8) posting to any lisp things? hm i really should Yes you should i guess comp.lang.lisp * Downix/#tunes is liking LISP slate will have a lot of features from lisp s/features/capabilities Alright Slate == arrow? not quite ok but i think it'd be very good for implementing arrow ok since i'd have lisp power in a smalltalk-like system with good reflection ok good how about "slate: the purely functional object-oriented language"? hm purely functional can be a pretty strong claim semi-purely heh quasi-pseudo-semi-purely virginal 01:00am * Downix/#tunes wakes up, "virgin, where?" Downix: make me a women lol abi: Abi? i am the little girl borg with a big brain or #tunes' infoslut lol ok, lisp knows ok hm... time for squeakers http://guppy.eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp/~kagawa/publication/mthesis-abstract.html ok Dx: will you actually read that? hmm, that one isntt online, but some papers r at http://guppy.eng.kagawa-u.ac.jp/~kagawa/publication/ yes i'm already looking there that's ok i know where to get monad papers Nope Right now I'm working on my businesses finances k, squeak is in the know on slate ok that leaves the ver-beloved tunes group :) s/ver/ever i doubt they'll be prepared for this :) 01:10am no way in hell they will be hehe i wonder what laurent martelli will think of it :) it'd be cool if many ppl see all 5 posts k, tunes has been slapped with the news hmm well, jecel will see 3, and fare might see 3 Hehe, slap the gcc people, nah no i've caused enough damage for one night now i've got to turn vapour into hard code ok not a difficult task, but it will take time and ideas into specs/docs yes well, it's late i will work on this tomorrow, ideas and code and specs and answering hundreds of e-mails :) hehe i suddenly feel some serious regret but oh well we'll see 01:20am if i get really lucky, darpa will notice :) c'mon grant money :) sigh good night -:- water [water@tnt-10-29.tscnet.net] has left #tunes [] -:- Zhivago [brian@th.merddin.com.au] has joined #tunes 01:30am -:- SignOff Downix: #TUNES ([BX] PARTYTIME! 5 seconds to the millenium! 4...3...2...1...EOF From client) -:- SignOff hcf: #TUNES (Leaving) -:- Fufie [stig@tunnel-44-22.vpn.uib.no] has joined #tunes morning 02:10am hmm.. water has gone comp.lang.lisp 02:20am I thougth he was all smalltalk :) yes.. and he even says he has a partially complete prototype in Common Lisp I am looking forward to seeing Slate at least 03:20am -:- smkl [sami@glubimox.yok.utu.fi] has left #tunes [] -:- smkl [sami@glubimox.yok.utu.fi] has joined #tunes -:- water [water@tnt-9-17.tscnet.net] has joined #tunes ping? pong! water: you mentioned in your mail you had a prototype of Slate written in CL.. is that available for a look at what Slate does? it's available but it's only a few K 04:20am mostly just demonstrates a few concepts the interesting ones, that is i and eihrul worked on it for a few hours because the mentioned site was kindof empty :( it would be nice to have a spec or something to download and test abi self? well, self is a prototype-based object system, at http://self.sunlabs.com/ or mirrored at http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/oocsb/self/ 2nd url works, and this project won't stray too far from self ok anyway, the docs are going to change after i get off of work it'll be a day to day thing... i'm dropping arrow until enough people are working on the fully-specified and emulated (in lisp) language this seems a far more practical goal at the moment anyway, if you fellows could write up explanations of how CLOS code could be applied to slate / self ideas, and perhaps write up some demo code, i'd appreciate it btw, i've mostly been discussing it on irc with hcf and eihrul over the last 3-4 days or so have noticed you might reach a wider tunes-audience by implementing in lisp I think i know, that's the idea at first make something downloadable/readable and I'll have a look the squek thing is just an item of convenience for a portable, quick implementation I have scheduled the Arrow-paper for reading tomorrow all right I want to do squeak in lisp 04:30am i don't blame you squeak however will soon have access to great vm technology (via ian piumarta's work) but squeak is smalltalk smalltalk lacks some of the things I like about lisp i know that's what slate's for (I made a long speech about what I liked for bill the other day, think you were here then) yep well, i'll get that spec going and posted over the next day ro two, most likely incrementally right now i gotta run bye have fun -:- water [water@tnt-9-17.tscnet.net] has left #tunes [] 04:40am -:- thomas [thomas@193.217.63.152] has joined #tunes Thomas: hi hi what's up, doc * thomas/#tunes is reading about refactoring not much what've you been doing lately? since you left uni? i'm working in a norwegian company narviknett? programming and designing with php3, sql and html no :) there are quite a few norwegian IT companies ! ahh, people :) * Fare/#Tunes tried to guess from IP number... it's 'netbiz' ugly name sure probably sounds cool in norwegian in norway, all computer-lingo is pronounced as english :| 05:50am oh well, you should have stuck in some slashes, and doobilackies over the letters then it would have sounded cool in english, because we wouldn't know how to pronounce it :) :) -:- NetSplit: adams.openprojects.net split from devlin.openprojects.net [05:50am] -:- BitchX+Deb1an: Press Ctrl-F to see who left Ctrl-E to change to [adams.openprojects.net] thomas: you aren't the retro bloke are you? nope ahh, I probably mis-remembered the name :) -:- Netjoined: adams.openprojects.net devlin.openprojects.net -:- Fufie [stig@tunnel-44-22.vpn.uib.no] has joined #tunes -:- smkl [sami@glubimox.yok.utu.fi] has joined #tunes evil capitalist company :) yepp, and I'm the evil programmer --- hahahahhahahahhaha hahaahahahahahahhaha -:- SignOff Fufie: #TUNES (Leaving) Zhivago: Tom Novelli lives in New-York, Thomas M. F. lives in Norway... Damn Scandinavians! Too many of them on the net! -:- Fufie [stig@tunnel-44-22.vpn.uib.no] has joined #tunes fare: ahh fufie: hmm, what were the main things in lisp you liked (vs smalltalk)? 06:00am that it is a programmable programming language fufie: ok, so reflection ( smalltalk people think theirs's pretty programmable too - reflective ) hmm, not to a primitive level though. I found smalltalk more difficult to reprogram to make a completely new language Zhivago: LISP vs Smalltalk? Well, the macro system; the fact that you could taylor your object system to your needs, rather than use just a plain one fare: oh, I can think of a whole number of things, I was curious about fufie's motives though zhivago: I made a long speech the other day :) "But you don't!" -- "I don't, because I can. Or rather, I don't, because I could." personally, I use lisp because it is an extremely simple self-redefinable machine. and it scales exceptionally well to both 'high level' and 'low level' programming 06:10am hmm, I'm a bit unimpressed with tcp/ip ii, looks like it was a waste of money :| I'm looking to implementing a tcp/ip stack in lisp is not 'factoring' and 'generalization' the same thing? -:- NetSplit: adams.openprojects.net split from sterling.openprojects.net [06:11am] -:- BitchX+Deb1an: Press Ctrl-F to see who left Ctrl-E to change to [adams.openprojects.net] Zhivago: there's one in ML -:- Netjoined: adams.openprojects.net sterling.openprojects.net -:- smkl [sami@glubimox.yok.utu.fi] has joined #tunes there's one in FORTH, somewhere, too there is a proprietary one in LM-LISP, too fare: oh good, how low does the ML one go? I want to get down to the ethernet/etc device level, and take it up to tcp/ip etc Zhivago: all the way down to some low-level device driver abstraction. Uses SML functors a lot. fare: hmm, might have a look for it, although it's not looking too complex fare: bsd seems to be an insanely overcomplex system 06:20am -:- Ghyll [karltk@mp-217-241-190.daxnet.no] has joined #tunes -:- SignOff zarq: #TUNES (Ping timeout for zarq[10dyn148.delft.casema.net]) -:- zarq [zarq@10dyn148.delft.casema.net] has joined #tunes zhiv: do you know of any decent lisp walkers? Fufie: I have some at-ats in my back yard... :) 08:20am -:- Downix [down@d-gnaps-272.ici.net] has joined #tunes -:- AlonzoTG [Alonzo@216-164-129-93.s347.tnt1.lnhva.md.dialup.rcn.com] has joined #tunes om ATG 08:40am Fufmann: what about the one in Screamer? it is one of the walkers I am evaluating to see which I will extend/use 08:50am -:- SignOff AlonzoTG: #TUNES (Have Nice Day :)) -:- thomas_ [thomas@193.217.63.152] has joined #tunes -:- SignOff thomas_: #TUNES ([x]chat) -:- thomas_ [thomas@193.217.63.152] has joined #tunes thomas: do you still skate? -:- SignOff Downix: #TUNES ([BX] Size DOES matter) 09:40am -:- SignOff Ghyll: #TUNES (bar) Fufmann: have you p-met TMF? I am quite sure I have it is a small town after all how that "you're quite sure"? You mean, you're sure that some of the guys you met was him, but don't know which? I think he said he was quite sure he had not met me :) I'm sure you said you think he said he was quite sure he had not met you. but I am not sure why he quit but then again.. it is difficult to finish studies when tempting job offers are around * Fare/#Tunes isn't tempted by writing HTML or Perl or SQL 10:00am * Fufie/#tunes isn't either.. but ymmv * Fufie/#tunes spent a year studying political science when he was bored with computer science.. and then I got a tempting thesis offer so i went back what's your thesis about? * Fare/#Tunes is too lazy to read the logs aop+hypermediasystem "hypermedia". Can mean anything. Darn, "Mystery House" was a hypermedia system. 10:10am "Books whose hero is YOU" (whatever the name is in english) are hypermedia systems yes but I will writen an article (in english) in february about it s/writen/write/ irc is a poor medium to explain afk 10:20am -:- washort [washort@d104.narrowgate.net] has joined #tunes -:- Downix [down@d-gnaps-2.ici.net] has joined #tunes hey-lo -:- AlonzoTG [Alonzo@207-172-49-14.s14.tnt7.lnhva.md.dialup.rcn.com] has joined #tunes 11:00am -:- SignOff AlonzoTG: #TUNES (Have Nice Day :)) -:- hcf [nef@me-portland-us1042.javanet.com] has joined #tunes -:- SignOff thomas_: #TUNES ([x]chat) -:- thomas_ [thomas@193.217.63.152] has joined #tunes -:- SignOff thomas_: #TUNES ([x]chat) -:- SignOff Downix: #TUNES (BitchX: use it, it makes you bulletproof) nice.. someone is solving the halting problem on the tunes-list :-) 11:40am -:- SignOff thomas: #TUNES ([x]chat) -:- Downix [down@d-gnaps-286.ici.net] has joined #tunes -:- eihrul [lee@usr5-ppp204.lvdi.net] has joined #tunes hey eihrul lo hoy ppl What's up? hoy hcf -:- SignOff Zhivago: #TUNES (Ping timeout for Zhivago[th.merddin.com.au]) -:- Zhivago [brian@th.merddin.com.au] has joined #tunes -:- thomas [thomas@193.217.63.152] has joined #tunes 12:30pm hmmph ... maude homepage is down, and cafeobj only seems to have tutorials in japanese ... you don't know japanese? try babelfish maybe tunes@ slashdotted the maude site ;) i don't think babelfish does any useful translations and the tutorial is in PS anyway -:- AlonzoTG [Alonzo@207-172-49-159.s159.tnt7.lnhva.md.dialup.rcn.com] has joined #tunes for some maude poop, http://www.csl.sri.com/~duran/ poop? 12:40pm aka stuff hey 12:50pm -:- SignOff AlonzoTG: #TUNES (Have Nice Day :)) Who the hell gets this idea that off-the-shelf parts are faster than custom solutions? 01:50pm i'd imagine the person who got the idea did downix: they can very well be faster Fufie: Depends on the application, doesn't it? depends on a lot Very true but custom software isn't always better or faster or meaner or nicer -:- Ghyll [karltk@mp-217-242-72.daxnet.no] has joined #tunes it's just custom very true hi ghyll hi fu(f)ie fu(f)ie/fuf(f)ie ghyll: the jfront.ht file seems to have gotten new life as java-overview.ht should jfront.ht be removed? Fufie: But for hardware? * Fufie/#tunes gives ghyll a bonk over the head.. :p downix: same thing Fufie: yes. (ouch) Fufie: I clean forgot about it. ghyll: ok.. remove it when you can downix: but it's as with haircuts.. I don't want a robot or a machine (which I stick my head into) cut my hair.. I want a custom job which takes the special care my huge dumbo-ears are Fufie: done Fufie: *nods* * washort/#tunes notices water's post to the squeak list downix: but I want a qualified hairdresser to do the haircut.. washort: what does it say? smkl: talking about the Slate project... something to do with Self and BETA, apparently. slate I guess Fufie: I'm right now sick of people saying that a generic card will always beat a custom job * Downix/#tunes wonders why SGI's sell at all if that were the case Downix: their boxen have fancy colors sometimes SGI sell because of mere superstition and because they have cool boxes VEry true * Fufie/#tunes has seen SGIs get bought for ludicrous reasons then how about the AS/400? Or Playstation? 02:00pm umm.. people buying AS/400 tend to know what they do, I hope playstation sucks though Downix: playstations have the software. it doesn't even have a prompt Fufie: 'because SGIs have clearer colors' ghyll: yes :) Or how about an UltraSPARC? Fufie: you can run linux or freebsd on the psx an ultrasparc is ya pc/workstation Downix: because they want the best java-experience. I find my computer comparable to a much more expensive ultrasparc Java-experience? *snurk* There's an experience to Java? besides pain, frustration, and torture? i doubt it. lol i had someone try to explain java iterators to me today. blick. ten lines of code to do what can be done in one line in Smalltalk. =) I just can't win today * Fufie/#tunes comforts downix Cheer up Downix, You know what they say Some things in life are bad They can really make you mad. I know the advantages of the custom work I'm doing Other things just make you swear and curse * Downix/#tunes laughs When you're chewing on life's gristle, Don't grumble, give a whistle! And this'll help things turn out for the best... * Downix/#tunes recognizes the song And... * Downix/#tunes grabs his Monty Python CD always look on the bright side of life! * washort/#tunes looks at Fufie and flees :-D -:- washort [washort@d104.narrowgate.net] has left #tunes [ah!] We're the knights of the round table, we dance when we're able...... * Ghyll/#tunes is pleasantly surprised that some things never change.. :) yup * Fufie/#tunes goes and finds a MP cd too Oh I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok...... 02:10pm I think that is more fitting for computer geeks and not lumberjacks the cross-dressing part that is What do you mean hold on, got a run in my pantyhose 8) * Fufie/#tunes is sure that all computer geeks have a personality of the other sex at irc * Ghyll/#tunes thought there were only two.. Actually, I think they just WANT sex at irc and in techie groups you have to appear as male or you'll have to hear everyone's wet dreams s/hear/hear about/ lol * Downix/#tunes is quite male, thank you * Downix/#tunes adjusts his dress as he crosses his legs what also sucks is typing at a keyboard with long nails Yes indeed I chipped a nail earlier -:- Downix has changed the topic on channel #tunes to: Reflective computing and cross dressing * Fufie/#tunes finds it.. like.. sucky.. that like.. the tunes mailing list never discusses the feminine parts of computer science Fufie: you didn't quite manage to make the chewing gum noises.. I know :) We need to discuss the proper application of lipstick! topics like "how to keep your nails good looking even when writing java code" downmix: permuted to lispstick.. -:- SignOff Ghyll: #TUNES (bar) 02:20pm Of course there's the "Making a GUI look "fluffy"" -:- SignOff hcf: #TUNES (Leaving) and fuzzy logic yup Female logic of course "Honey, what do you mean you don't wash these windows?" "Honey, have you taken out the trash can?" "Darling, why is my screen a funny blue color?" but seriously.. you know that lisp is a feminine language compared to the macho language c? I noticed Let's make arrow totally prissy 8) commands like "whatever" and "as if" 8) "you know what I mean" "do I look good?" (which is a predicate which always returns true) of course, the "clueless" command like "as if "geek" is clueless, dump him 8) 02:30pm if tunes is ever written we should use a day to reprogram it to be more friendly to girls yes We must have women and the language used should be called lispstick lol! What about lispgloss? Or lispliner? those would be apps I guess lispgloss would be the powerpoint clone lispliner would be the vector drawing program Sounds good 8) 02:40pm -:- Kaufmann` [newbie@dial779.infolink.com.br] has joined #tunes Tsc. This is what happens when people start to add features to projects as an afterthought Yup It's obvious that the reflective capabilities of Tunes will be harmed by the newfound emphasis on cross-dressing * Downix/#tunes laughs Awwe Kaufmann, you'll look so good in the feather boa and high heels heh 02:50pm What do you think of my new lingere'? just smashing, darling hehe ah well ok * Downix/#tunes is trying to get info about the C= UNIX ? Commodore-brand UNIX dunno 03:00pm NetBSD talks about it a bit it's the first SVR4 implimentation anyhoo, is there a way to harness Joy's clean combinator semantics in a more familiar programming structure? no idea, probably 03:10pm -:- Kaufmann` is now known as KaufmannNotHere -:- SignOff KaufmannNotHere: #TUNES (Read error to KaufmannNotHere[dial779.infolink.com.br]: Connection reset by peer) What makes Joy simple isn't its combinator structure as much as is pure semantics remove purity, you have complexity back hmmok although I approve of combinators as the Right Way (tm) to do pure stuff, since combinators are also meta-pure, unlike the lambda-calculus see unlambda abi: unlambda? unlambda is a silly language based on call-by-value combinatory logic at http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/madore/programs/unlambda/ note that unlambda is prefix rather than postfix -:- pyro [tcn@cci-209150250034.clarityconnect.net] has joined #tunes pyro!!! hey Pyro 03:30pm wtf?? I have 53 emails? unlambda seemed nice hi ya all church numerals for numbers.. nice pyro: wassup about retro? pyro: seen fcvm? fcvm? ouch. lost the pointer. Was on clf what is it? yet another forth-based OS forth ___ VM abi: fcvm is forth code virtual machine -:- AlonzoTG [Alonzo@208-58-192-50.s50.tnt9.lnhva.md.dialup.rcn.com] has joined #tunes abi: fcvm is also at http://www.icdc.com/~mghughes18/sources/ okay, Fare. thanks abi: fcvm is also at http://www.onelist.com/community/fcvm okay, Fare. ok, it's a mac forth os? * Fare/#Tunes just committed a klein-bottle order for his dad's birthday pyro: looks like so a good way to be portable is: support multiple architectures oh god, look at all those C files 03:40pm I just cut off all ties with C pyro: congratulations! Retro is compiling from within itself now.. it has its own assembler written in forth... still needs a few things before it'll run... pyro: what about disk access? that's one of those things I just mentioned :) But that's easy.. But the keyboard and screen are more important I made sure the source will be easy to convert to 16x64 block format.. I'll just use raw blocks for awhile. 16x64 block? Horrors of the past! reminds me of the fire mailing-list talking about "a simple way to compress blocks". I suggested LF-delimited text lines... 03:50pm pyro: what about publishing your sources? not whenever I change anything, if that's what you're thinking pyro: instead of raw blocks, why not a "filesystem" like the original VSTa thing: just append stuff until you reach the end, then "garbage-collect" (or just dump the whole stuff from memory) hmm (atomicity achieved by keeping space for two copies, and a flag to say which is the latest) I'm using blocks for starters but what's this VSTa thing? hmm OSes.html#VSTa pyro: ain't "dumping everything" easier than blocks? about the same yup, but allows for more flexible consequential design (like "flashing" memory dumps to achieve persistence) 04:00pm the old VTSa fs.. how's that work? You just write modified blocks to the end, and reclaim the old ones later? IIRC, yes I don't remember how the reclaiming happened. how reliable it was, etc, etc. I think we're getting to the point where disks won't be necessary if you don't need tons of space ferroelectric RAM looks promising it's like ferrite core, but really small & fast (it's persistent, like ferrite core) and there's eeprom & flash 04:10pm I think disks will always be superior but indeed some kind of persistent RAM _might_ be "enough" for most uses cold chinese food isn't edible hiya but only with free software in mind, because proprietary software will bloat as disk size increases zarq: that's what microwave ovens are for so that persistent RAM will work only if people make hardware devices with free software in mind. fare; mine's broken if MS doesn't shape up my job will be to write small & solid commercial software.. it's really pathetic speaking of MS Access, who's familiar with relational databases? Have you found any use for that concept in TUNES, etc? 04:20pm -:- SignOff eihrul: #TUNES (Ping timeout for eihrul[usr5-ppp204.lvdi.net]) fare? fare is sometimes looking at another screen and interruptible with a beep (/msg Fare ^G) or at http://www.tunes.org/~fare/ or connected through a crappy ISP (cybercable.fr) or pronounced Fahree ok, i'll wait :) -:- SignOff AlonzoTG: #TUNES (Have Nice Day :)) -:- rares [user1848@wtrb-sh5-port9.snet.net] has joined #tunes * Fare/#Tunes is back shape up? hmm what does "shape up" mean? relational db suck reldb is typical hype-oriented business yeah the ones I'm familiar with have some tables with over 64 bytes of key fields lots of duplication 64 *bytes* of key fields???? yup they want to index the whole universe? 04:30pm umm.. 10,18,2,5,32, that's 67 what are these figures? the number of bytes in each key actually, characters.. MS uses Unicode hmm and people wonder how come it's slow :) hehe How is unicode? lame lame lame it's part of the problem set, not of the solution set hmm well, MS makes you use unicode, but the only data ever entered will be ASCII 7-bit Well in access you can't (sorry Downix I gotta repeat :!) you can't do a simmple call to get_custname(CustID) -:- air [brand@p0wer.qzx.com] has joined #tunes UNICODE is a downright stupid attempt at not defining a structured document format understandable from proprietary software vendors * Fare/#Tunes hate proprietary software pro party softwqare pro party? yeah, allow you to mix every human language in one raw text file s/hate/hates/ it's no use pyro: that's false. pyro: it doesn't even allow that yay, my dvd-rom got here today Fare: but that's it's purpose, even if it fails in that respect rares: what are you comparing access to? php3 + postgres * Fare/#Tunes proposes that every human-produced glyph ever be given a number by a free registration authority. The glyph obtained by printing my PhD thesis as a whole on one big strip of paper is to be given number 1. rares: you like? pyro: orthogonal persistence make rdb useless. pyro: even dBase II was faster than Access i like scripting i can read the logic as well as the functionality GUIs I have to trust Microsoft I hate how access hides stuff in its GUI's, making it hard to modify your software I hate how it makes impossible to write software to begin with pyro dude can ya help mre? * Fare/#Tunes doesn't know mre, and cannot help him (or her) hehe you need some Meals Ready to Eat? no I need to get this access project done I need to get a Unix job and I need to get an apartment 3 very important things hey you're almost in my position :) except my apartment is good 04:40pm can you help me with acces though kids running around upstairs, a puppy too, but no parents bitching at each other :) it's making me crazy how many tables do you have? relationships? pyro: s/access hides/any proprietary windows product/ and to top it the xperts who are forcing me to use it can't get it done either hehe use code as much as possible avoid macros I want to don't use "=SomeFunction()" in events that's gay (there's an option under Forms/Reports to force you to use modules) rares: export the db to text, write perl scripts, and tell'em it uses access hehe Fare I was ready to do that I almost did something like that for a report once instead I passed the buck :) the thing is I'm going to college in the fall there's no way I'm telecommuting fall is a long way off... not when you have to sit in front of MS Access then it's just hell you know, a guy I work with, with no prior computer experience, made a database with 104 interrelated tables that sounds about right only someone who never used a computer would use 104 interrelated tables no, that's a military standard a cancelled standard, by the way :) you're kidding! that's mastiurbation gezzus it is and the standard was released in 1991, and it had 6-digit dates! was it in COBOL? no, english.. quite readable, actually. 04:50pm give 'em some credit :) if it was implemented as non-relational, with unnecessary fields stripped out, it would be great. 05:00pm -:- AlonzoTG [Alonzo@216-164-134-182.s436.tnt3.lnhva.md.dialup.rcn.com] has joined #tunes -:- mibin [mibin@62.11.105.124] has joined #tunes -:- FareWell [fare@quatramaran.ens.fr] has joined #Tunes -:- FareWell [fare@quatramaran.ens.fr] has left #Tunes [] I guess he was saying goodbye yeah, it's late in franc 05:20pm no, I was just spawning a new irc, to look for help at forging mail with exim (damn NSI domain registration) what's NSI? internic.net -:- lar1 [larman@sdn-ar-012casfrMP041.dialsprint.net] has joined #tunes Hey hey hey how ya been? -:- SignOff rares: #TUNES (Ping timeout for rares[wtrb-sh5-port9.snet.net]) Lots of school related work... but otherwise fine I have a huge beast of a project due friday, if that's any consolation :) 05:30pm Well, I shouldn't complain too much, my other middle name is proctastinate s/proctastinate/procrastinate -:- eihrul [lee@usr5-ppp204.lvdi.net] has joined #tunes Hey eihrul! lo it's harder to procrastinate when ya get paid :) -:- SignOff lar1: #TUNES (Leaving) pyro: rmm, not if you get paid to procrastinate -:- lar1 [larman@sdn-ar-012casfrMP154.dialsprint.net] has joined #tunes -:- rares [user9964@wtrb-sh4-port173.snet.net] has joined #tunes that sucked dinner? no ISP is a wet noodle silk would be nice but no -:- SignOff zarq: #TUNES (Ping timeout for zarq[10dyn148.delft.casema.net]) at the rate it's going I won't use the internet in a few years too slow, too commercial, too useless you need the internet to replace the internet before the WWW it was nice it's only because the wrong ppl are the helm at even yep 05:40pm it's like TV or the phone why do I have a phone line? to get on the internet nobody forces you to switch on the wrong webpages/channels/etc except ppl make websites not corps only pyro give me a way to market muds and i'll do it but it's still a waste of time rares: hasn't that already been done? mass market no i mean on consoles so parents can't hide from reality anymore nope the day mud flamewars take over the console world the sooner content will improve lol -:- SignOff Downix: #TUNES ([BX] BitchX is as BitchX does) haha LOL 05:50pm -:- zarq [zarq@10dyn54.delft.casema.net] has joined #tunes hrmm, is there any way to specify the element pairs of a hash-table in the make-hash-table constructor? right now I only watch BBC reruns on PBS Fare, Fufie: ? -:- malc [malc@masq.redline.ru] has joined #tunes eihrul: only the HyperSpec will tell not afaik, but you can find other hash-table implementations around Fare: i'll just make a macro 06:00pm -:- SignOff rares: #TUNES (Ping timeout for rares[wtrb-sh4-port173.snet.net]) well, it's time for dinner.. -:- SignOff pyro: #TUNES (pyro has no reason) om -:- Pete_B [root@5300-tele-1-cluster.157.ip-pool.cix.co.uk] has joined #tunes bbl -:- SignOff lar1: #TUNES (Leaving) hi all 06:10pm -:- Pete_B [root@5300-tele-1-cluster.157.ip-pool.cix.co.uk] has left #tunes [] -:- SignOff malc: #TUNES (tata) -:- water [water@tnt-10-168.tscnet.net] has joined #tunes hi all * AlonzoTG/#tunes left clicks on water 07:00pm -:- Fare [fare@quatramaran.ens.fr] has left #Tunes [] -:- Fare [fare@quatramaran.ens.fr] has joined #Tunes fare: here? water: rewriting the prototype to support cloning eihrul: shouldn't be too hard * eihrul/#tunes nods. i also changed it to work more cleanly though i am also trying to flesh out the design... there are a lot of semantics issues ok ei: you could use a macro to make-and-fill the table zhiv: are you looking at the code as well? Zhivago: i know... but not worth it actually :) wateR: no :) k water: what is this code? eihrul has things.lisp that he is working on 07:10pm i have a copy from yesterday which is likely outdated i'm concentrating more on describing how the language syntax and semantics should work brb water: yes, i started from scratch -:- hcf [nef@me-portland-us817.javanet.com] has joined #tunes back hey hcf :) hey water i got about 8 positive responses, mostly from the big guys big guys? david ungar, alan kay, jecel, randall smith cool a few asked for a mlist in the interest of not splintering too many things, perhaps a tunes list could be used right * Fare/#Tunes is back maybe specs, considering slate as a proposed strategy hey fare -:- SignOff mibin: #TUNES (Ping timeout for mibin[62.11.105.124]) hey BTR heh like the initials? that makes "bitter", not "water" oh heh 07:20pm fare: what do you think of the ideas on slate posted so far? (there's a lot more that hasn't been written up yet) the general idea seems ok, but there are too many shadow areas for me to comment well, for practical purposes, just consider it a type of clos language with an mop system LISP syntax or not? lisp syntax for now it will definitely be based on cons cells * Fare/#Tunes was thinking of Dylan which for me is simply graphical no, this will be very much like self well, that's not the right description hum. Advice: make the core a compiler, not an interpreter even a stupid compiler why? because mastering the code transformation chain is the key hum elaborate? an interpreter means you depend on an external language, its runtime, etc I'd have to agree the speed penalty is the least problem with it hm its easy to have a compiler generate an interpreter anyhow -:- hcf has changed the topic on channel #tunes to: TUNES, Free Reflective Computing System || slate so, bison and yacc, then? no bison and yacc suck i know what then? I mean, even the Squeak "interpreter" is actually C compiled from smalltalk right i.e. a (static) compiler with C being the target ideally, you'd have a dynamic compiler, and C is not such a good target for that (too high a grain) 07:30pm what if i targetted smalltalk objects? are you satisfied with the level of control granted by having the smalltalk runtime be a black box? hm well, the classes are nice and abstract this would allow me to bypass fiddling with integer math or floats and i can re-use collection classes fairly easily like hashing and dictionaries etc as for reusing code, if you language is semantically like an existing one, you can translate existing code well i'm not sure yet how much existing code would be of a useful style for bootstrap purpose, anyway although of course useful programming concepts would be reused yes, that's a good point hm. there's also the question of who i could get to help with the implementation once proven to support a satisfactory spec 07:40pm but that should wait i guess well, anyway, a lot of my thoughts today centered around the issues of immutable objects water: ian and i it's possible that not only streams, but also branching streams would be useful and a hyperset-style definition of a stream would offer a functional-programming generalized equivalent of BETA's "inner" in other words, an incomplete function call or function composition hyperset? a set containing itself my oh my it allows formalization of streams and recursion and induction over htem how are circular data structures gonna revolutionize anything? maybe the tool you want is coinduction e.g. Z=(A Z) formalizes streams of data type A sorry, misspoke co-recursion, co-induction 07:50pm note how coinduction is actually induction on the set of "observers", i.e. on the dual structure hm oh yes, i'd like to mention that within slate, i'd like to have all the system abstractions defined in terms of the language * AlonzoTG/#tunes slaps water around a bit with a large trout. yer too formal. not a difficult point, but considering that multiple object interpretation systems will be useful, ... he used to not be enough formal yeah :P anyway, i'd like to have various ways of interpreting the sexp-structures that will be the objects in the system actually, just wait for me to post some specs i'll address simple issues there 08:00pm a thorny one i'd like to resolve is what to do with beta's virtual patterns iiuc, patterns are thunks with multiple "input" points (through dynamic binding) the issues of beta's modelling by various types of associations between patterns, like block-scoping, references, and pattern variables, seem to be resolvable fairly easily by adjusting mop policy hm there is the point that beta only deals with cooperative scheduling vice pre-emptive water: read my implement1 paper? yeah, but it's been a while i'll bet i grok it better now the point was: there is an intrinsic notion of safe point associated with any implementation of a high-level language with a lower-level language (and multiple so, if you have multiple simultaneous notions of implementation) i'll have to look through it again 08:10pm see also the LLL page k for hints on cooperative vs preemptive multiprogramming why is bespin so slow tonight? not "that" slow to me must be my connection the mirrors are slow as well brb -:- SignOff water: #TUNES (Leaving) * Fare/#Tunes goto 3053 -:- water [water@tnt-10-172.tscnet.net] has joined #tunes >>> water [water@tnt-10-172.tscnet.net] requested PING 947737120 from TUNES 08:20pm it takes a minute to get a response from bespin hm... well, the *pause* notion seems like it would be against the grain of the self design it could pass continuations perhaps but that makes no sense for an interactive object system -:- Rakko [eric@206.230.202.204] has joined #tunes hello hi rakko water: http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~johnr/code/slate/ http://www.cse.ogi.edu/%7Ejl/biblio-functional.html 08:30pm darn nice papers, though fare: looked at cecil? hcf: btanksley mentioned a functional oo language with immutable object states using streams, but didn't remember the name hcf: could you find it, pretty please? :) i know, i was gonna ask u about it i've never noticed a language like that outside of clos er... s/language/object system how will i know if i find it? bye -:- Rakko [eric@206.230.202.204] has left #tunes [] maybe the words "immutable" or "functional-style object state" not sure really hm... i wonder how much of a problem the "slate" name will be 08:40pm * AlonzoTG/#tunes left clicks on water y0 n0 Have you read "the Two Faces of Tomorrow" by Higgens? I think that's the author. no =) It was published in '79 Good book.... It describes the emergance of artificial intelligence in advanced computers. the author refers to techniques that are analogous to yours. vaguely, of course water: could billy be refering to a lang u already know of? vaguely = "we need this lunar mountain cleared for a new mass-driver". Computer: OKAY, I'll have it done in 20 minutes.... hcf: maybe, but i can't think of what he might mean in that case so they sit there to see what the computer does... It caused a missfire in an existing mass-driver and bombed the mountain and nearly killed the people... then the book describes the strugles they have to bring this new AI under controll. atg: and the point of this? it was a good book, I thought you'd like it. "good book"=? atg: how will it program me? :) -:- Kaufmann` [newbie@dial762.infolink.com.br] has joined #tunes atg: still there? hi kauf LAMBDA KAPPA PI! uhh sure don't ask :) om 08:50pm So what's up? water, any progress on Slate? swapping thoughts with fare and what's its relation to Arrow? i will update the site soon i.e. branches for the home page hehe heh don't worry about arrow right now :) why not? fare: yeah, i agree about co-induction the more i consider it WTF is co-induction again? kauf: on hold. the slate spec is a stepping stone kauf: check out the paper mentioned in that thread which thread? Which paper? hold on http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/pw/papers/bcj1.pdf abi icct is Interaction, Computability, and Church's Thesis at http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/pw/papers/bcj1.pdf k hm he has even more good papers BTW, I finally got around to starting to read that model theory text you sent ok -:- _ruiner_ [DIY@ppp367.wi.centurytel.net] has joined #tunes 09:00pm hey ruiner water: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/did/25794 <_ruiner_> hi water yay, just got through to Chapter 2 s/2/1 / heh 1/5 down, 4/5 to go... hcf: maybe bill meant abcl -:- SignOff AlonzoTG: #TUNES (Have Nice Day :)) abcl? actually, objectsisal in the page mentioned seems possible too water, good God! All this just to tell me what co-induction is? kauf: no, just a relatively small part kauf: section 4 although the other stuff is very relevant water, but I assume I'll have to read through the previous sections to understand Section 4 yeah, most likely hmm... now we have agt and icct :D well, I'm off. See you all * water/#tunes does a little dance bye kauf -:- SignOff Kaufmann`: #TUNES (And Brian, remember, don't talk about me behind my back... you know I'm omniscient :)) 09:10pm heh 09:20pm water: http://www.laputan.org/reflection/ref91.html 09:30pm hm 09:40pm unfortunately, it doesn't let code=data properly, it seems http://x40.deja.com/=dnc/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=316956233&CONTEXT=947741859.1639186464&hitnum=1 thx that's quite a search string :) i put deja's engine thru a rigorous workout everyday -:- SignOff Zhivago: #TUNES (Ping timeout for Zhivago[th.merddin.com.au]) 09:50pm putting more stuff up soon? yes, but i'm reading too darn much there will be quite a bit tonight to post when will the prototype code be put up? when i get most of the spec done and have a long session with a good lisper boy, do i really have to re-write the arrow papers but i will ignore that for now hmm linear logic relates to nested types is there a good intro on linear logic? good isnt a good word heh s/good// http://www.csl.sri.com/linear/sri-csl-ll.html 10:00pm thx http://theory.stanford.edu/~iliano/LLF/ilv/ilv.html heh ok http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/misc/mosaic/common/omega/Web/Groups/fox/people/fp/courses/linear/links.html under intros tho the 1st url seems to be the epicenter yes -:- SignOff _ruiner_: #TUNES (destroy what destroys you) 10:10pm (if (and 1 0) 2 3).... is that supposed to be returning 2...., because it is iirc yes doh er... wait 0 is logically true yeah how annoying :) 10:20pm so how's the code so far for things? -:- carlito [lol@137.28.129.10] has joined #tunes hi carlito hey water what's up? * water/#tunes is working on some reading and research for slate / arrow cool...carlito is working on a stupid presentation, and catching up on the internet k water: its pretty much done, its just... buggy, severely 10:40pm water: maybe some language specs for slate? water: the page dont say shit about it 10:50pm there..... delegation works eihrul: what are u doing? things things? 11:00pm yes water: okay.... everything seems to work :) 11:10pm -:- SignOff hcf: #TUNES (Leaving) -:- hcf [nef@me-portland-us644.javanet.com] has joined #tunes -:- SignOff air: #TUNES (BRiX [http://www.qzx.com/brix] :: sleep) -:- SignOff carlito: #TUNES (Ping timeout for carlito[137.28.129.10]) -:- SignOff eihrul: #TUNES (Read error to eihrul[usr5-ppp204.lvdi.net]: EOF from client) -:- eihrul [lee@usr5-ppp204.lvdi.net] has joined #tunes [msg(TUNES)] newlog 2000.0113 IRC log ended Thu Jan 13 00:00:01 2000