SyntaxPolice: Ah, but category theory allows you to suddenly turn nice, concrete subjects like the differential calculus into generalised abstract nonsense. It is quite wonderful in this respect.
SyntaxPolice: Ah, but category theory allows you to suddenly turn nice, concrete subjects like the differential calculus into generalised abstract nonsense. It is quite wonderful in this respect.
Off to Bonn tomorrow (actually today; it's 2am) for FotFS-4 (that's Foundations of the Formal Sciences IV), and I still haven't finished my slides...
elliot, allanf, benad, and digitect deserve to be certified as apprentice, IMO...
Postscript allanf still isn't certified, despite getting apprentice certifications from: salmoni, lerdsuwa, fxn, ploppy, myself and others...
librep
Working on John Harper's librep. Actually find I am using jade much
more often than I use emacs, because:
Does the USA think European foreign policy is too weak or not? On the one hand we have Washington politicians mocking Europe's foreign policy weakness in Bosnia and elsewhere. But, when serious efforts are made to try to strengthen Europe, we hear that the USA is trying to weaken the Franco-German alliance because of its fears of an independent European foreign policy.
Postscript #1: The Bush tax cut
The Wall Street Journal asks about the Bush Administration's new tax initiatives: "Is [Bush] too eager to cut taxes for the rich? Or are his critics so eager to soak the rich that they'd settle for a smaller economy with less for all?" (1/2/03). Elsewhere, the issue has been framed as a choice between growth and jobs and--class warfare. But one may argue that the most stimulative tax break is one that mainly benefits working class and middle class people--because these groups would spend most if not all of the money gained through a tax cut, while the rich would primarily increase their savings. What do you think?
96% of income taxes are paid by the top half of the income distribution, and over a third are paid by the top 1% of the income distribution. The left has created somewhat of a Catch-22 in this country. The income tax structure is so progressive that only the rich pay any significant income taxes, and then the left opposes any income tax cuts because they benefit only the rich; taking their argument seriously would eliminate tax cuts as a potential policy instrument, even if they would significantly increase economic growth.
Examples of centres: a centre to represent those unfairly excluded from the main advogato centre, for whatever reason.
Useful certifications:
First answer, to question #3: mglazer rated all of their diary entries at 1; incidentally he also rated the diary entries of ladypine, moshez, shlomif, nixnut, and ChrisMcDonough at 10. Congratulations to bgeiger who got it. I think it is reasonable to assume that mglazer is not interested in reading any criticism of his anti-arab hate campaign.
Second answer, to question #1: Bohemian Hall and Park is the place. Thanks to wlach who gave me the lead so I could find it using google.
Three questions:
FORTRAN, LISP, Algol 60, CPL, GPM, PROLOG, the UNIX shell, APL, Forth, Janus, Smalltalk, Scheme, ML, FP, Occam, Elephant 2k.
Does anyone think these are not right, or have other suggestions for this list?
Postscript This diary entry:
#dialect C gnu-cpp linux-style
dialect python lexical-scope indent-4-spaces
(dialect scheme
case-sensitive-ids scheme48-package multiline-comments)
/** ...
* @dialect java sun-codeconv gcj-code
*/
I think having a reasonably coherent, cross-language, machine readable set of conventions for indicating the dialect of a source text is useful, particularly for allowing syntax-directed editors to reliably determine how to format program text, and to figure what identifiers are introduced and how they are used.
An issue is: should dialect directives extend the language? My opinion is they should, since they could be used to influence the semantics of the program, but they should be permitted to occur in comments, so ensuring backwards compatibility.
Another issue concerns UNIX #! directives; see SRFI 22: Running Scheme Scripts on Unix for some discussion of important issues here.
I'd like to write an advogato article about this, probably in a couple of weeks time, but I have to hammer down a few ideas first. In the meantime I am interested in any comments or references to similar ideas.
Postscript
Withdrew my certification of robocoder as
apprentice due to his (cynical|confused) certification of
mglazer as master.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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