00:00:04 so, who here is made out of chicken 00:04:37 Not I. 00:04:53 I am 00:04:56 and I am playing with squeak 00:04:58 Smalltalk is love 00:05:48 -!- vixey has joined. 00:20:17 -!- Deformative has quit (Remote closed the connection). 00:20:55 -!- Deformative has joined. 00:29:00 -!- timotiis has quit ("leaving"). 00:46:57 -!- Deformative has quit ("Konversation terminated!"). 00:47:39 -!- Tritonio_ has quit (Remote closed the connection). 00:49:38 -!- Deformative has joined. 00:59:24 Deewiant, minor issue, you know if fungus? while it is not as extensive as mycology I notice ccbi segfaults on it 00:59:28 Loading module stackstack 00:59:29 Loading module finghrti 00:59:29 Segmentation fault 00:59:57 (while mine get into an infinite loop) 01:00:01 AnMaster: He knows of fungus. 01:00:09 It's what made him write Mycology. It's bad. 01:00:12 ehird, yep 01:00:21 but interpreter should still not segfault on it 01:00:24 hardly 01:00:26 its broken iirc 01:00:27 that is the thing I like to point out 01:00:41 and his binary is stripped 01:00:52 (gdb) bt 01:00:52 #0 0x080c4af7 in ?? () 01:00:52 #1 0x08109990 in ?? () 01:00:52 ...... 01:00:52 #5 0x00000000 in ?? () 01:01:14 ehird, point is anything but sefault is fine 01:01:23 interpreter should never segfault or assert imo 01:01:31 infinite loop? sure, it's fine 01:01:54 -!- Corun has quit ("Leaving"). 01:10:17 AnMaster: you know what I want? 01:10:19 inline structures 01:13:48 -!- RodgerTheGreat has joined. 01:14:53 howdy folks 01:15:15 hi 01:15:23 'sup, vixey? 01:16:34 I just returned from the NMU programming competition- great fun 01:16:53 how did it go? 01:17:06 my team did pretty well- 4th place out of about 20 teams 01:17:32 Yo. 01:17:33 we all got T-shirts and free food, so I'll chalk it up as a win. :) 01:17:36 hey, pikhq 01:18:07 Been a while. 01:18:23 yeah, school is getting pretty crazy on my end 01:18:34 I spent the past week with family. 01:18:50 So, not been on much. ;) 01:19:39 it's looking like I'll spend the summer taking more classes at MTU- so far I've lined up Coding Theory, an art class and a course on technical writing. 01:21:12 vixey: are you new here, or have I been completely out of it? 01:23:27 new, afaik 01:24:25 ah, well then, welcome to this festering hive of insanity and highly intellectual ranting 01:25:51 -!- RedDak has quit (Remote closed the connection). 01:30:01 just in case anyone was wondering.. 01:30:09 cpp supports circular header definitions, and gets them right. 01:30:09 wow. 01:30:24 nifty 01:30:32 I shudder to consider how you determined this 01:30:40 RodgerTheGreat: You don't wanna know. 01:30:48 However, I'll tell you anyway. 01:30:50 ok 01:32:44 schream/value.h includes the definition of scm_tag. A scm_tag (which is the structure identifying the tag for a specific type of object) has a name (i.e. for integers it's 'integer'). This name is of the type I use to represent strings (contains length, allocated, and the string) - (scm_string *), defined in schream/string.h. But scm_string's are valid objects too, and string.h defines a scm_tag for them, so it needs to include the header file defining 01:32:44 scm_tag... schream/value.h 01:32:53 RodgerTheGreat: Amazingly, cpp figures out what I mean and terminates. 01:33:08 Amazing 01:47:40 so, what's everyone up to this evening? 01:47:53 coding this 01:47:53 ;) 01:47:55 Getting a laptop to run Gentoo. 01:47:57 and it's 00:47 01:48:06 -!- Tritonio_ has joined. 01:48:10 wishing I could think of something good to code.. 01:48:19 I kinda feel like coding something, but I don't have any immediate goals 01:48:37 vixey: embed prolog into $LANGUAGE 01:48:44 I have a couple ideas for new game projects, but nothing that I think I can just slam out in an evening 01:49:11 vixey: what language(s) do you use? 01:49:20 that might suggest appropriate applications 01:50:01 I'll use anything 01:50:41 hm. well, that doesn't narrow things down much. 01:50:56 vixey: Delphi? APL? 01:51:03 Java? PHP? 01:51:18 RodgerTheGreat: Actually I was suggesting languages I expect vixey would not in fact code in. 01:51:29 oh 01:51:35 I doubt your two were in the same vein, but I agree! :) 01:52:19 then I'll put votes in for Rails and TinyBASIC 01:52:53 Rails as in the one on the gem? 01:53:03 RoR certainly isn't a language. 01:53:15 Ruby is, though. And Rails happens to be a rather badly designed framework built on top of Ruby. 01:53:40 Rails adds untold horror to an already hideous language 01:54:06 and coding a non-web2.0 app actually *using* rails could be pretty hilariously painful 01:54:19 RodgerTheGreat: Ruby is not a hideous language 01:54:40 I have heard that from many people and their reasons were all flimsy. Starting to hate Ruby is becoming 'hip' right now and a lot of them just went with the interblags.. 01:54:56 Also, here's something horrific: the term 'web2.0' 01:55:17 -!- slereah_ has joined. 01:55:54 -!- Slereah has quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)). 01:56:02 wb slereah_ 01:56:20 (And there is silence!) 01:56:32 Thanks. 02:04:06 this is a rather interesting idea: http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/c-b-faq.html 02:05:51 RodgerTheGreat: i didn't realise it was a parody until near the end 02:05:52 /sigh 02:06:25 hey, it's fiction, but thought-provoking fiction nonetheless 02:06:47 It's old :o 02:07:22 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_of_harmful_sensation 02:07:57 I would like to see that 'parrot' distortion. 02:08:10 I would gradually undistort it. :p 02:11:00 ehird: I have an image- one sec 02:11:30 found this a while back, saved it because it was neat: http://www.nonlogic.org/dump/images/1206839450-d66c44db02a18598796ea18e5504d0fdde567d69.jpg 02:13:27 RodgerTheGreat: haha, wow 02:13:31 is there an undistorted version? ;) 02:13:36 har har 02:13:39 however, that picture does look like the kind of thing that would break the brain though 02:15:53 RodgerTheGreat: Is it specified what kind of distortion is in that? 02:16:04 -!- ihope has joined. 02:16:05 oh wait 02:16:10 that purports to BE the undistorted version 02:16:16 if you read the text 02:16:21 well, bye all, i had fun ;) 02:16:32 cya 02:17:07 that was a joke, RodgerTheGreat 02:17:08 :p 02:19:03 ? 02:19:14 oh, presuming the parrot would kill you 02:20:03 RodgerTheGreat: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm 02:20:11 that seems to be what that thing draws off 02:20:32 neat 02:20:36 * RodgerTheGreat reads 02:22:48 actually, if the Parrot ever came into existance that'd be the one time i'd argue for complete government opaquity and censorship 02:22:49 ;) 02:23:03 however, that seems pretty unlikely to me 02:23:05 so my ideals are safe 02:23:43 -!- slereah_ has quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)). 02:24:08 -!- slereah_ has joined. 02:24:19 funniest joke in the world trumps the parrot 02:24:42 vixey: haha- yeah, that was a great sketch 02:24:47 vixey: except that the parrot is legitimately scary ;) 02:24:49 parallels i'd say 02:24:57 RodgerTheGreat: do you know how this - http://www.nonlogic.org/dump/images/1206839450-d66c44db02a18598796ea18e5504d0fdde567d69.jpg - was made? 02:25:05 manually by a human? or some kind of algorithm? 02:25:10 nope, I just found it on an image board somewhere 02:25:26 looks like someone took fractal render into some image program.. 02:27:57 this kind of stuff is one of the few themes in horror fiction that actually scares me 02:27:59 :p 02:28:03 (and even then only marginally) 02:28:08 most of the other stuff is just tacky 02:28:23 but then the brain is one of the most interesting things i know of :) 02:28:49 I think it's just enough on the edge of something that sounds possible to get you paranoid 02:30:01 yeah 02:30:22 and if it was real, then it'd be *highly* scary, of course 02:30:53 i would imagine the suicides from people reading about them and becoming paranoid might exceed the rate of deaths from the image itself 02:31:06 (another analogy in comedy: Boite diabolique) 02:32:51 it seems this can be either really, really funny or scary 02:41:36 http://reddit.com/info/6dw0m/comments/ reddit'd 02:59:14 http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/t3_002.html 03:00:47 RodgerTheGreat: same guy who did the faq & wrote that original story 03:01:29 yes 03:01:41 that's why I thought it would be a good link 03:04:02 RodgerTheGreat: it references geb 03:04:03 so ++ 03:24:50 -!- ihope has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 03:43:05 -!- ehird has quit ("Konversation terminated!"). 04:12:03 -!- pikhq has quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)). 04:14:11 -!- pikhq has joined. 04:33:31 -!- Judofyr has quit. 04:39:50 -!- shinkuzin has joined. 04:44:04 -!- shinkuzin has quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)). 04:47:56 -!- shinkuzin has joined. 06:48:08 -!- RodgerTheGreat has quit. 07:08:53 -!- shinkuzin has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 07:10:50 -!- calamari has quit ("Leaving"). 07:28:12 -!- spal has joined. 07:59:59 -!- clog has quit (ended). 08:00:00 -!- clog has joined. 08:24:43 -!- spal has quit ("Leaving."). 09:25:42 -!- Sukoshi has joined. 09:35:09 hi Sukoshi 09:35:16 Heya. 09:35:34 how is the nomic stuff going (if it is)? 09:36:02 It's not :( 09:36:05 Windows Vista is going :( 09:36:11 Make that last one a :((( 09:36:22 aww 09:36:37 * vixey sends you a get well soon card 09:37:01 Objectively speaking, Vista is a leg up from XP. It's more UNIX-like. 09:53:17 -!- RedDak has joined. 10:07:48 -!- RedDak has quit ("Killed (NickServ (Comando GHOST usato da DIO))"). 10:57:31 -!- Sukoshi` has joined. 11:12:58 -!- puzzlet_ has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 11:21:02 AnMaster: yay, that thing with fungus is a compiler bug in GDC 11:21:29 Deewiant, oh nice to find 11:22:05 AnMaster: already been reported in november 11:22:20 no one fixed it since then!? 11:22:48 GDC development appears to have slowed down 11:23:00 I don't really follow what's going on with it myself 11:23:22 it might be fixed in the latest SVN 11:23:42 but I doubt it, since the bug isn't closed 11:24:08 AnMaster: the problem is there's only one author, apparently, and he doesn't interact that much with others 11:24:31 -!- Sukoshi has quit (Connection timed out). 11:24:33 mhm 11:24:34 I could work around the bug but I think I'll just compile with DMD instead 11:47:34 -!- Judofyr has joined. 11:59:27 Deewiant, I must have an old ccbi version because it says BAD: J doesn't set delta 11:59:33 for SUBR 11:59:42 Deewiant, where is your current binary? 11:59:49 * AnMaster can't find url 11:59:57 it's being uploaded 12:00:52 iki.fi/deewiant 12:02:12 odd, looks like number of env variables differs 12:02:26 * AnMaster goes to cut them out and sort them to make it possible to compare 12:04:53 Deewiant, http://pastebin.ca/963235 <-- interesting 12:05:40 Deewiant, seems like ccbi add a env variable there, that is two spaces and is equal to the full path to the interpreter binary? 12:05:47 err three spaces 12:07:58 doesn't do it here with y, at least 12:08:33 ah, no, yes it does 12:08:36 looks like a DMD quirk 12:09:14 yep, only the DMD-compiled binary does it 12:09:22 food now -> 12:10:22 Deewiant, so compile part with gdc and other part with dmd? ;) 12:11:08 Deewiant, still says "BAD J doesn't set delta" for ccbi. huh 12:28:14 AnMaster: won't link together 12:28:22 singe GDC doesn't respect the D calling convention 12:28:51 hm ok 12:28:59 and J works here just fine 12:29:17 odd, maybe my hg checkout is outdated? 12:29:28 of mycology 12:29:41 doubtful 12:29:59 what does hg identify say 12:30:48 7450b1fdaa5d+ tip 12:31:41 Deewiant, also how do I switch upstream in mercurial now again to point to that domain name instead directly to the ip (and what was the domain name now again?) 12:32:07 that won't help you since I don't keep the server running :-P 12:32:56 ah 12:33:42 and that's the latest myco 12:33:56 hm... it seems fungus detect a difference that myco doesn't 12:34:00 with file loading 12:34:14 because cfunge enters an infinite loop in fungus 12:34:33 but not on any specific module 12:35:15 fungus uses o in a way that myco doesn't, at least 12:35:18 not sure about i 12:36:26 http://pastebin.ca/963248 12:36:31 that is at same point 12:36:34 just after first i 12:36:37 differs a bit 12:37:53 oh wait, it loaded negative? 12:38:01 hm no 12:41:08 AnMaster: the J thing was a myco bug 12:41:23 hm? 12:41:27 you said it worked for you? 12:41:27 pull from tar.us.to:8000 if you want 12:41:38 AnMaster: that was against old myco, my bad 12:42:57 oh wait i wasn't wrong, something else is up 12:43:05 Deewiant, sure a sec will pull 12:45:21 v▒22▒▒ 12:45:21 X 12:45:21 > 091+v 12:45:30 vs. 12:45:31 v▒22▒▒ X 12:45:31 > 091+v 12:45:34 hm 12:47:07 -!- atsampso1 has quit (Read error: 113 (No route to host)). 12:47:16 Deewiant, that is just after loading fspace 12:47:21 that is the actual first difference 12:47:31 I wonder what this is that mycology doesn't test 12:47:55 -!- atsampson has joined. 12:48:02 -!- atsampso1 has joined. 12:48:08 -!- atsampso1 has quit (Client Quit). 13:00:56 Deewiant, in D what is "static if"? 13:01:17 compile-time if 13:01:22 hm 13:01:24 kind of like #ifdef but better 13:01:36 "static if (needBegX) {" depends on from where it is called 13:01:39 or more like #if rather 13:01:45 so that means two versions will be output? 13:01:48 of the routine 13:01:50 ye 13:01:55 mhm 13:09:05 Deewiant, what I don't understand is the way ccbi loads the fspace module in fungus 13:09:07 that is: 13:09:16 v▒22▒▒ 13:09:16 X 13:09:16 > 091+v 13:09:33 to me it seems like the X should end up on first line 13:10:25 I can't single step through the ccbi file loading code and I can't see what in the file loading code causes it to be loaded with the X on the second line 13:10:52 assuming the output from area is correct? 13:12:31 it might not be 13:13:01 hm 13:13:17 especially if it has to output binary 13:13:32 you know, if the value at (0,0) is 10 for instance 13:13:37 then it'll output a line break there 13:14:18 AnMaster: yep, (7,0) is 10 13:14:44 and (16,0) is the X 13:14:50 so it is on the first line 13:14:56 the display is just messed up because of the NL 13:16:22 hm 13:17:29 * AnMaster again wish for a way to make ccbi output each instruction as it is executed so he can compare 14:46:01 -!- timotiis has joined. 14:59:45 -!- vixey has quit ("Leaving"). 15:16:34 -!- ais523 has joined. 15:22:12 -!- Judofyr has quit. 15:32:45 -!- ais523 has quit ("switching to a client that doesn't require me to type in PONGs by hand, because I'll be doing something else for a while"). 15:33:26 -!- ais523 has joined. 16:02:35 -!- Tritonio_ has quit (Remote closed the connection). 16:03:53 -!- timotiis_ has joined. 16:09:09 -!- timotiis has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 16:16:26 -!- ihope has joined. 16:17:21 ABAABABAABAABABAABABAABAABABAABAABABAABABAABAABABAABABAABAABABAABAABABAABABAABAABABAABAAB! 16:17:25 Ello. 16:18:29 Hello sir. 16:19:52 -!- timotiis_ has changed nick to timotiis. 16:21:20 -!- wildhalcyon has joined. 16:21:35 hola 16:22:03 hai 16:22:13 What you up to slereah? 16:24:06 not much. 16:24:22 You? 16:26:25 Work's been draggin me down a lot 16:27:07 Keeping me from my project(s) 16:28:22 -!- ehird has joined. 16:29:35 i just had a great idea 16:29:42 set that Parrot image to Never Gonna Give You Up 16:29:46 put it on youtube as Basiliskroll 16:29:54 kill everyone 16:30:01 ..., profit 16:30:43 I see a flaw in your plan 16:30:46 Rick Astley 16:31:16 wildhalcyon: But if I removed Rick Astley it wouldn't be Basiliskroll :( 16:31:37 more specifically ZOMBIE Rick Astley. The dude said, "NEVER gonna give you up" 16:32:07 you kill Rick Astley with a Basiliskroll and you've got some real trouble on your hands 16:32:22 It wouldn't work. 16:32:32 For Never gonna give you up is a life giver. 16:32:40 It has been shown to cure terminal cancer patients. 16:34:07 are you sure? I thought they did a study that showed Rickrolling to be HIGHLY carcinogenic? 16:34:07 wildhalcyon: well, once Never Gonna Give You Up became untrue, everyone would die 16:34:09 of shock 16:34:30 Well... that may be the case. 16:34:58 But there's no way I'll be falling for a basiliskroll. I've got some neighborhood kids I've hired to watch all youtube links. You know... just in case. 16:35:25 Well, once they see it and die, you won't be able to check further ones 16:35:39 Here's basically the mission plan of how that would work: http://www.nonlogic.org/dump/images/1206839450-d66c44db02a18598796ea18e5504d0fdde567d69.jpg 16:35:41 Just hire some new ones. 16:36:06 ihope: But when they're all gone... http://www.nonlogic.org/dump/images/1206839450-d66c44db02a18598796ea18e5504d0fdde567d69.jpg explains that 16:36:59 What are those fractals, anyway? 16:37:01 oh, I thought the action was immediate. 16:37:23 wildhalcyon: it depends 16:37:28 the original BLIT has it to be pretty much immediate 16:37:32 however 16:37:39 in BLIT, the main character sees it under protection 16:37:50 but eventually submits to it because it had infected his brain due to long exposure 16:37:58 & that was not immediate 16:38:13 it would seem the immediateness is canon, but i find the delayed idea interesting too 16:38:23 ihope: I think it's some fractal edited 16:38:31 But hah, now you're both fscked. 16:38:41 :-P 16:38:50 Looks to me like just two fractals superimposed. 16:38:58 Created in UltraFractal, perhaps. 16:39:12 No that parrot looks like it was made that way 16:39:23 it fits the BLIT description almost perfectly (jagged parrot salami) 16:39:47 Ah. 16:40:53 oh, and http://www.old-computer-mags.com/Magazine/Your%20Sinclair%20N.23/Your%20Sinclair%20N.23.htm 16:49:08 -!- Tritonio_ has joined. 17:05:16 -!- Judofyr has joined. 17:25:37 -!- RodgerTheGreat has joined. 17:25:51 hello everyone 17:27:51 Hulo 17:32:48 RodgerTheGreat: hello 17:32:53 how's it going, slereah_, ais523? 17:33:04 * ais523 has been implementing INTERCAL all week 17:33:14 cool- in what language? 17:33:16 hmm... I nearly typed @ical{} rather than INTERCAL then 17:33:20 RodgerTheGreat: C 17:33:26 I maintain C-INTERCAL, an INTERCAL-to-C compiler 17:33:44 I wasn't aware of that- neat 17:33:45 and I've been implementing new features in an attempt to do catchup with CLC-INTERCAL and to add some new things 17:33:56 ais523: awesome 17:33:56 RodgerTheGreat: sudo apt-get install intercal on Debian 17:34:19 or http://intercal.freeshell.org is the home page for both of the main INTERCAL implementations 17:34:31 think that package is available on Darwinports/Macports? 17:34:51 RodgerTheGreat: I don't know, but it isn't all that popular so I doubt it 17:35:02 :( 17:36:48 it is designed to be portable, though 17:36:58 except that some of the newer features require gcc 17:37:21 (the INTERCAL to C link code requires gcc because I hook into the compiler between its preprocessing and compilation stages 17:37:34 and therefore have to use strange gcc command-line args like -x) 17:38:19 I spent ages on the autoconf script a couple of versions ago, so I'd be interested to know how well ./config.sh && make && sudo make install goes 17:38:38 but I know how much of a pain it is to get gcc installed on a Mac (I watched a friend do it once), so you might not want to bother 17:43:27 ais523: gcc is trivial on a mac 17:43:30 1. put in cd 17:43:36 2. select developer tools 17:43:38 3. hit next a few times 17:43:42 4. there is not step 4 17:43:57 ehird: ah, they were trying to do it downloading things from some Apple developer thing over the Internet 17:44:08 they got it working, but it took about an hour 17:44:12 including manually editing various things 17:45:47 wtf? 17:46:12 it's really pretty straightforward 17:46:17 I think part of the trouble may have been that they were trying to install other things at the same time 17:46:27 or maybe they got an unstable release or something by mistake 17:46:45 never mind, anyway, if it's easy then that's one less hurdle 17:49:04 it's really pretty funny how many "developer tools" come with macs out of the box- the full JDK, python, perl, ruby, vi and nano, tons of the usual unix utilities, etc 17:50:40 yes, and pretty ironic how you have to install them on some Linux distributions nowadays 17:51:00 (for instance Ubuntu is missing all the C header files unless you specifically request them) 17:54:17 I think it meshes with Apple's main goal for the "out of box experience"- yeah, OSX comes with a ton of drivers and things you probably don't need, but by preinstalling them nearly everything "just works" when you plug it in. 17:55:27 RodgerTheGreat: agreed. At least Ubuntu does that with drivers, and I suppose the no header files thing is for much the same reason as burying the command line in the menus 17:56:35 in general, I think Apple has struck a good balance between making things user-friendly and avoiding "dumbing down" the unix environment for people who want to use it. 17:57:25 so, are you going to try to install C-INTERCAL, then? 17:58:34 ais523: i think i did c-intercal on os x once 17:58:47 I might 17:58:51 ehird: It's changed a lot since then, unless you did it recently 17:59:25 I redid the build system for version 0.27 17:59:55 hmm... pity oerjan isn't here, I found a bug in his INTERCAL Unlambda interpreter that was masked by a bug in the compiler itself 18:00:12 and when I fixed the compiler bug, I had to fix the Unlambda interp too 18:01:42 This is madness. 18:02:22 slereah_: what is madness? 18:02:35 INTERCAL unlambda 18:02:55 slereah_: it works! 18:03:04 But it is madness :o 18:03:19 although it must have been doubly difficult for oerjan to write, it served as a useful test case for the new comment-handling system 18:03:26 Then again, my first version of Lazy Bird was tried on the Love Machine 9000 18:03:29 because oerjan likes to vary styles of commens a lot 18:03:30 ais523: maybe you should write a build system in 5 lines of perl 18:03:31 ;) 18:03:31 It didn't work though 18:03:35 s/commens/comments/ 18:03:42 ehird: they'd have to be long lines 18:03:55 because there are so many files to sort out and put into various places 18:04:08 a C-INTERCAL build system golf would be an interesting challenge, though 18:08:33 -!- oklopol has quit (Remote closed the connection). 18:08:48 -!- okopol has joined. 18:09:44 okopol: you've dropped the l again 18:10:19 hopefully it isn't with oerjan again, or there'll be a longer wait before you get it back this time because you'll have to wait for them to be online 18:10:31 ais523: makeit glob 18:10:31 :D 18:10:42 as far as the 'what if files are missing' 18:10:44 make it check the web 18:10:46 for a file list 18:10:48 no, not web 18:10:48 ehird: the dependencies don't follow a pattern 18:10:49 something p2p 18:10:53 no single point of failure 18:10:54 :D 18:10:59 ais523: analyze the header includes, duhh 18:11:05 and I often install C-INTERCAL on a computer that isn't connected to the internet 18:11:18 ehird: that's dependencies on header files 18:11:26 the object files connect together in more than one way 18:11:37 so some global variables are used just to transmit which files are connected 18:11:50 and as another example, some data files can be read on disk or compiled into the program 18:12:09 and which method is used depends on whether you're compiling convickt (a command-line utility) or libick.a (a library) 18:13:41 ok, um 18:13:47 grab the dependencies from the p2p 18:13:48 actually 18:13:55 just load a perl file from the web and eval() 18:13:58 one line build system 18:13:59 ;) 18:14:12 ehird: very abusable 18:14:20 ais523: oh shush 18:14:21 :D 18:14:26 and I do not have Internet access ususally when building C-INTERCAL 18:14:34 s/ususally/usually/ 18:14:51 the Windows computer that I test the DOS build on doesn't have Internet access ever 18:15:29 'java for smalltalk programmers': the saddest title article i've seen all day 18:16:01 ehird: that's a pretty bad title 18:16:10 reversing the language names would make some kind of sense 18:16:34 ais523: If you reverse it I don't want to work with any resulting programs 18:16:35 :) 18:16:48 ehird: agreed 18:17:01 it seems sad that someone knows enough smalltalk to know how to tell people how to switch from it to java, and yet still reccomends doing so 18:19:28 IMO the only advantage of Java is its ability to do crossplatform GUIs 18:19:42 and although that's a massive advantage the rest of the language is so bad as to make me not want to use it again anyway 18:25:30 ais523: and the api for the uis is horrible 18:25:34 as well as most of the end user experience 18:25:43 ehird: I know 18:25:56 I had to study it for a semester 18:26:04 and in the end we had to produce networked Snakes-and-Ladders programs 18:26:13 which is one of the most pointless games ever to run networked 18:26:19 Squeak can do cross-platform UIs though. That may have something to do with the fact that it runs in its own window & VM and tries to avoid interacting with anything outside that window. :-) 18:26:28 the interaction was just clicking on a button to make your move 18:26:38 it's good for development though: the UI is suited to it 18:26:42 and a few other controls to set up the network connection in the first place 18:26:59 * ehird has been playing a little with smalltalk recently, currently creating a wiki with Seaside incredibly rapidly 18:27:07 the model takes a lot of getting used to 18:27:14 but i'm picking it up quickly 18:44:53 -!- jix has joined. 18:46:53 -!- jix has quit (Client Quit). 18:47:16 -!- jix has joined. 18:49:16 I think this could make a great desktop: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Spider_crab_at_the_Kaiyukan_in_Osaka%2C_Japan.JPG 18:52:00 RodgerTheGreat: it's easier on the person following the link to link to the image description page rather than the image itself, so as to be able to see the copyright conditions easily 18:52:12 going from the URL back to the description page is annoying to have to do 18:52:28 but the other way is just one click 18:52:34 oh, sorry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Spider_crab_at_the_Kaiyukan_in_Osaka%2C_Japan.JPG 18:52:45 ais523: 'mediawiki is crap, fix it for me' 18:52:46 :) 18:53:15 ehird: you really expect MediaWiki to be able to influence the content of a direct link to an image? 18:53:49 changing the metadata might be one way to do it, but would be counterintuitive 18:54:17 ais523: i expect mediawiki to discourage linking to such direct resources when the common user wants some metadata too 18:54:54 ehird: I'd like it to do that too, but having direct links to the images is needed for some purpose too. There needs to be some way to educate users not to post links to them, though. 18:55:15 (Worse: most users I come across just post direct links to the /thumbnails/, which is not really useful to anyone) 18:55:48 ais523: Just make the inteerface clearer 18:56:06 Basic case: don't make the image itself a link on the description page. 18:56:11 the problem is people are used to right-clicking on images 18:56:14 Put a 'download' link somewhere. 18:56:26 but there is currently ongoing work to make the description pages more obvious 18:56:45 ais523: are they going to make the code sane after that? :-) 18:56:58 MediaWikiBagOStuff, what great OOP design 18:57:01 ehird: actually they rewrote the image backend a few months ago 18:57:26 ais523: i meant the whole thing 18:57:27 heh 18:57:48 it seems unlikely that there'll ever be a Phase 4 nowadays 18:58:05 (the phase number goes up by 1 with each complete rewrite, it's at 3 at the moment) 18:58:12 ais523: enterprisey 18:58:34 (but it's relative to what's used on Wikipedia rather than MediaWiki itself) 18:58:48 ((Phase 1 wasn't MediaWiki-based at all IIRC)) 18:58:54 ais523: one problem with mediawiki -- 18:59:00 the actual core revision system 18:59:11 it only handles linear, simple changes 18:59:17 and doesn't even store them efficiently 18:59:42 ais523: a wiki based on the ideas behind darcs or git will be the future -- no 'LULZ ALREADY EDITED' messages (well, maybe 1 or 2) 18:59:45 maybe even USING git or darcs 18:59:46 it depends on what you mean by 'efficient' 18:59:59 but yes, MediaWiki is bad for edit conflicts 19:00:06 mostly because their diff algorithm is rubbish 19:00:43 Wikimedia use GNU diff3 noncustomised for edit conflict merges IIRC 19:01:09 and the issue is that wikitext rarely contains newlines 19:01:28 ais523: mediawiki is a great big hack that has its outsides polished to look modern 19:01:29 :) 19:02:41 hmm 19:02:49 it seems irony is all the range when it comes to web stuff 19:02:51 ehird: C-INTERCAL is a great big hack, but that's deliberate 19:03:03 Avi Bryant, creator of Seaside, 's blog is powered by typepad 19:03:13 The ruby on rails website is powered by PHP 19:03:16 I could go on 19:03:17 there are things like Perl idioms dropped into the C code that manages CLC-INTERCAL character set translation (because CLC-INTERCAL is written in Perl) 19:03:46 ais523: isn't making it a great big hack kinda hard to maintain 19:03:46 :) 19:03:57 ehird: well, yes 19:04:17 but I wouldn't have got into maintaining an INTERCAL compiler in the first place if I was scared of 'hard to maintain' 19:04:57 hehe 19:05:13 hmm... it's a pity that vim.org doesn't have a 'generator' 19:05:22 I was hoping it would say that it was written in Emacs 19:05:25 haha 19:05:35 gnu.org might have some vi pages 19:05:38 seems pretty likely 19:05:43 -!- RedDak has joined. 19:05:53 be jealous of my new T-shirt acquisition: http://www.nonlogic.org/dump/images/1206899749-shirt.png 19:06:18 RodgerTheGreat: die 19:06:19 now 19:06:21 :< 19:06:21 the back says "programming enrichment activity test subject" 19:06:31 :D 19:06:49 Delicious cake. 19:06:52 RodgerTheGreat: was there cake, and was it delicious 19:06:58 more importantly 19:06:59 was it moist 19:07:02 unfortunately, it was a lie 19:07:07 ehird: I checked the Emacs page there, and there was no note of a generator anyway 19:07:10 did you refrain from crying over every mistake? 19:07:15 typos are inevitable, you know. 19:07:18 s/anyway/anywhere/ 19:07:33 * ais523 notes another example of comic timing in the last two comments 19:08:01 ehird: your QDB should have an IRC logger 19:08:01 How do people develop on Vista? 19:08:11 so we can just say $$QDBTHIS$$ or some other special token 19:08:17 ais523: haha 19:08:20 The Computer Science got done, and we made a neat gun for the people who are still alive. 19:08:21 and the QDB will automatically add the quote 19:08:26 ais523: well i'll probably get a logger in here sometime 19:08:29 because ircbrowse's interface sucks 19:08:40 Sukoshi`: with difficulty, and by paying a lot of money for MS development tools 19:08:52 the logger will probably plug into the bot which will be done at the same time (jesus, second coming thereof) 19:08:56 oh, hi Sukoshi` 19:08:58 I hear the MS development tools are free these days. 19:08:58 so it'll be @remember 19:09:00 or soemthing 19:09:08 but.. how does it know how many lines to quote? 19:09:15 19:09:19 and mostly you want to cut out irrelevent lines 19:09:33 ehird: it would have to be manually edited 19:09:48 either that, or just use a stream editor language, like sed or TECO, but with the lines numbered in the reverse direction 19:10:26 so to quote the exchange above, I could write $$QDBTHIS:1,21d;24,$d$$ 19:10:43 (that's sed by the way, I don't know TECO) 19:11:01 ais523: it would seem that exchange is less efficient than using the mouse 19:11:10 ehird: to do what? 19:11:14 you swipe over the lines you want, type 'qdb.eso-std.org/submit' 19:11:16 paste it 19:11:17 my mouse can't send emails by itself 19:11:23 delete the lines 19:11:24 click submit 19:11:28 oh 19:11:49 But I'm serious here. 19:11:51 but I want to be able to do things entirely over IRC 19:12:11 Sukoshi`: I'd probably use cygwin or DJGPP if I had to do development on Vista 19:12:11 I'm on Vista, and I'd like to be able to do Windows development and cross-platfom development. 19:12:21 Yeah, I've been looking into Cygwin and MinGW. 19:12:22 Sukoshi`: mingw 19:12:22 but that doesn't do Windows development 19:12:35 never do plain windows dev, btw 19:12:39 i will murder you in your sleep. 19:12:41 at least, not plain Windows dev 19:12:51 but that should be completely avoided because the Windows API is so strange 19:12:51 heh 19:13:00 ais523: we're like soulmates! 19:13:01 kind of. 19:13:03 without the soul part 19:13:04 Last I checked, the Windows equivalent to fork() had 11 parameters 19:13:04 or the mate part 19:13:12 and that was back for Windows 95 19:13:14 That's scary. 19:13:45 fortunately, I can't remember what they were all for, or I'd have gone mad by now 19:13:53 and I never tried to use it 19:14:12 I just used the Windows equivalent of system(), which is not the right way to do things but is good enough sometimes and easier to understand 19:14:28 Heh. 19:14:40 * ais523 used to do Windows development back sufficiently long ago that they usually targeted Windows 3.1 19:15:29 hmm 19:15:35 there should be a list of languages with continuations 19:15:38 there just aren't enough of them 19:16:05 ehird: depends on what you mean by 'continuation' 19:16:14 does setjmp produce a continuation, for instance? 19:16:21 what about try/catch/throw? 19:16:28 ais523: definately not 19:16:29 what about C-INTERCAL's MAYBE? 19:16:32 those are not continuations 19:16:36 those 'continuations' are downwards-only 19:16:50 once dropping below their creation point on the stack, you cannot call them 19:17:01 and the second criterion: reusable 19:17:01 the INTERCAL one can be used both ways 19:17:06 but is not reusable 19:17:06 continuations can be called multiple times 19:17:14 ais523: then it's not a continuation 19:17:24 well, it's a continuation in a loose sense 19:17:29 but a thoroughly useless one 19:17:30 you can make a reusable version by putting MAYBE in a loop 19:17:44 -!- Judofyr has quit. 19:17:49 hmm... maybe I should write an INTERCAL program that CREATEs genuine continuations using MAYBE 19:17:55 ais523: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation#Example 19:18:06 if you can do that with MAYBE and a loop then yeah C-INTERCAL has real continuations 19:18:17 and that tempts me to write a continuation-based web app in it 19:18:19 that would just be hilarious 19:18:38 one issue is that the continuations return void, which makes things harder than normal 19:18:53 you do have a programmer-specified finite supply of global continuation-unaffected variables, though 19:18:56 ais523: can you pass values to the continuations? 19:19:04 but each of them is a single bit and hard to read 19:19:05 ehird: no 19:19:07 in scheme, 19:19:23 (call/cc (lambda (k) ;; k is a procedure. when called with X, this call/cc returns X 19:19:29 ehird: I know 19:19:41 INTERCAL doesn't have first-class functions 19:19:45 just first-class integers 19:19:50 so all you could pass back would be an integer 19:20:04 -!- oklopol has joined. 19:20:19 come to think of it, they aren't true continuations simply because you have no way to store them 19:20:41 as in, if you go back to an earlier continuation, you lose all the continuations made since then because you had nowhere to put them 19:21:09 (you reference a continuation by counting back how long ago a particular continuation was created) 19:21:41 however, the whole MAYBE thing is just a special case of the threader, so you could still get true continuations by defining something that worked like MAYBE but acted differently 19:22:06 however, it wouldn't get the special optimisation the compiler does on MAYBE, so your program would get slower the more continuations were in existence 19:22:48 * ais523 has even more insane plans to extend the threader to be able to do lambdas too, but that's still an early-stage concept 19:23:19 * ais523 gets to work on an INTERCAL continuation library, just for fun 19:23:46 hmm... INTERCAL has variables. Should INTERCAL continuations record and restore those? The problem doesn't come up in Scheme. 19:23:54 -!- okopol has quit (No route to host). 19:23:55 ais523: scheme has variables. 19:23:55 I'd be inclined to say that they should 19:24:01 ais523: here, i'll define a continuation: 19:24:06 you copy the call stack, not the heap 19:24:09 so you get local variables etc 19:24:13 but not globals 19:24:13 AND 19:24:25 if you store a reference into a local, the object referenced is changed later on, then you jump back 19:24:29 then the object in the reference has changed 19:24:37 so: a continuation is a copy of the call stack. 19:24:45 calling it just wipes the call stack and replaces it with the copy 19:24:47 ehird: INTERCAL doesn't store 'auto' variables on the call stack 19:24:51 instead each variable has its own stack 19:24:59 ais523: dynamic scoping? 19:25:03 then continuations will be hard 19:25:19 ais523: but, just copy every variable 19:25:21 it SHOULD work 19:25:22 it's more that you can change the scoping mechanism at will, even during the execution of a program 19:25:31 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation#Example just get that working 19:25:32 ;) 19:25:47 but I'll store all the variables and the stashes inside the continuations, because that's what the compiler currently does 19:26:29 except the top STASH element for .1, so you can send a 16-bit integer back 19:27:03 ais523: is there anything that comppiles down to intercal? 19:27:15 actually, wait 19:27:22 ais523: the only way you can do continuations when using the c stack 19:27:27 is copying the c stack's memory 19:27:37 ais523: i'll make it easy for you 19:27:38 http://homepage.mac.com/sigfpe/Computing/continuations.html 19:27:41 there's continuations for pure c 19:27:48 older-style c though 19:27:53 but you should be able to utilize it 19:27:59 ehird: I already have code that copies memory around 19:28:09 and I'm not writing a C library to give continuations to INTERCAL 19:28:20 but instead writing the code to give continuations to INTERCAL entirely in INTERCAL itself 19:28:23 ais523: ok then 19:28:27 the latest version is self-extending 19:28:27 ais523: but look at that c code 19:28:28 it may hhelp 19:29:06 ehird: I have done 19:31:54 ais523: makecontext/setcontext may be proper continuations in c 19:31:55 i am testing 19:32:57 -!- ihope_ has joined. 19:33:34 char func1_stack[16384]; 19:33:34 heh 19:41:54 ais523: challenge - once doing the continuations, implement prolog in it 19:41:55 :) 19:42:18 ehird: look at pit/tests/permute.i in the C-INTERCAL distributions 19:42:30 it uses backtracking to write out all permutations of I-VI 19:42:48 the backtracking already exists, it's just continuations that need to be written 19:43:00 and I have plans for a Prolog to INTERCAL compiler already 19:43:16 -!- wildhalcyon has quit (brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net). 19:43:16 -!- pikhq has quit (brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net). 19:43:17 -!- sekhmet has quit (brown.freenode.net irc.freenode.net). 19:46:11 hmm... netsplits are interesting things, especially as I seem to get a different server at Freenode every time I connect to it 19:46:41 maybe clients should just try disconnect/reconnect if they aren't voiced or opped in the hope that they end up on the large side of the netsplit at random 19:46:42 -!- Judofyr has joined. 19:47:44 -!- wildhalcyon has joined. 19:48:42 heh, wildhalcyon did 19:49:48 Did what? 19:49:55 -!- pikhq has joined. 19:49:57 maybe clients should just try disconnect/reconnect if they aren't voiced or opped in the hope that they end up on the large side of the netsplit at random 19:50:01 -!- ihope has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 19:50:05 ais523: you might have only one server reasonably close by 19:50:15 Deewiant: yes 19:50:33 but I tend to get a different server every time I connect, so maybe it should be a preference, or the client should experiment and find out 19:50:34 in which case, reconnecting across the world just to bypass a netsplit seems a bit.. pointless 19:51:00 well, if you connect to the generic irc.freenode.net or whatever they usually dole out servers at random 19:51:21 I don't know, maybe it tries to give a fast server 19:52:10 but I find that I usually connect to a server on the west coast of the USA (I'm in Europe) if I connect to the 'generic server' 19:53:24 i get kubrick often 19:53:33 [16:28] [MOTD] - kubrick.freenode.net Message of the Day - 19:53:33 [16:28] [MOTD] - Welcome to kubrick.freenode.net in Los Angeles, CA, USA! Thanks to 19:53:33 [16:28] [MOTD] - Velocity Networks (www.vel.net) for sponsoring this server! 19:53:33 [16:28] [MOTD] - 19:59:26 -!- sekhmet has joined. 19:59:47 * ais523 is on leguin at the moment, which is in Sweden 20:12:49 hm 20:12:55 i really DO want a list of languages with continuations 20:12:55 :-) 20:15:10 well, INTERCAL once I finish this, Unlambda, Underlambda, Subtle Cough, that's about it for esolangs (from memory) 20:15:31 Subtle Cough has a whole lot of it. 20:15:54 * slereah_ does not know what continuation is. 20:16:02 slereah_: pity it's an unusable language, oerjan and I independently proved that there are only three non-equivalent programs, two of which just end and one of which is an infinite loop 20:16:25 you're working on continuations for intercal? 20:16:30 olsner: yes 20:16:40 I'm actually implementing them in INTERCAL itself, just to show that it's possible 20:16:42 Heh. 20:17:16 so you're extending some intercal compiler/interpreter written in intercal? 20:17:18 (the upcoming C-INTERCAL 0.28 has a CREATE statement that allows you to create new syntax on the fly; CLC-INTERCAL has had a similar statement with different syntax for a while) 20:17:24 didn't mean esolangs, hehe 20:17:31 I wonder if SKI + c is equivalent to lambda-mu calculus. 20:17:33 ais523: i proved that independantly too 20:17:39 olsner: the compiler is written in C, and compiles to C 20:17:49 but you can write extensions to it in either C or INTERCAL 20:17:53 olsner: ais523 maintains C-INTERCAL 20:18:01 he recently added a way to write extensions to it in INTERCAL itself 20:18:12 so recently it hasn't been publically released yet 20:18:22 it was on Thursday IIRC, or possibly Friday 20:18:23 I hadn't imagined actual users of intercal actually existed 20:18:34 ais523: here's one for the qdb -- Chirpy, on approval of a quote, sends a trackback/pingback to every URL in the quote which takes them 20:18:37 cool 20:18:54 olsner: certainly there aren't many intercal programs 20:19:07 but the implementations do sure support a lot of advanced stuff that no program will ever utilize ;) 20:20:40 ehird: I count 62 INTERCAL programs as examples supplied with C-INTERCAL, many of which aren't very interesting 20:20:56 and we add any INTERCAL programs we find as examples, as long as the licences are compatible 20:21:12 (CLC has its own examples too, some of which are just tests) 20:21:29 ais523: I want a combination of Prolog, ML and INTERCAL 20:21:31 in one thing 20:21:34 I don't know how 20:21:37 but it should look crazy 20:21:42 (but the infamous CLC-INTERCAL 'Hello, world' isn't in the C-INTERCAL example repository because it doesn't work on C-INTERCAL) 20:22:03 ehird: Prolog+INTERCAL's more or less been done; you'll have to tell me about ML, though, because I know the name but no more than that 20:22:21 ais523: ML inspired Haskell 20:22:25 It's strict and non-pure though 20:22:29 ah 20:22:31 ais523: Ocaml descends from it 20:22:35 Wikipedia it, the article's good 20:22:43 (ML & Ocaml are notorious for being crazy fast) 20:23:00 * ais523 will have to actually implement their plans for Functional INTERCAL some time 20:23:49 I think it only needs one tiny extra ability, the ability to create a woven thread but with some variables' read-only statuses themselves made read-only 20:24:12 I should take the time to learn intercal some day... 20:24:36 the woven threads would be dormant, but could NEXT FROM the current thread if no other threads wanted to 20:25:18 olsner: when you do, read the C-INTERCAL and CLC-INTERCAL docs for a perspective on what the language is like nowadays (http://intercal.freeshell.net), most docs are out of date 20:25:40 I meant http://intercal.freeshell.org 20:25:56 * ais523 managed to get freeshell and freenode confused again 20:27:51 DO CREATE (8200) GET CONTINUATION IN .1 RECEIVING .2 20:27:56 DO CREATE (8250) CONTINUE WITH .1 SENDING .2 20:28:14 ehird: how's that for syntax for INTERCAL continuation statements? 20:28:34 ais523: no, sorry 20:28:37 (ignore the bits from the line label and earlier, the bit after the line label is the syntax that's created) 20:28:37 those continuations are useless 20:28:42 ehird: why 20:28:51 ais523: it's (call/cc (lambda (k) (set! .2 k)) 20:28:56 INTERCAL doesn't have first-class functions, remember 20:28:57 you need (call/cc (lambda (k) ...)) 20:29:00 ais523: yes 20:29:03 ais523: but 20:29:07 just allow a check: 20:29:12 'have i just thawed out of a continuation?' 20:29:15 if so, then ..., else ... 20:29:35 I was planning to use the second arg for a check, the same way C does it with setjmp/longjmp 20:29:44 ais523: then you can't recv some values 20:29:50 so you get 0 if you are receiving from a continuation, and >0 otherwise 20:30:14 ehird: first, you can't send a 0 in C either, and second, what's wrong with not being able to receive some values (remember this is INTERCAL we're talking about) 20:30:18 'get cont in .1 recv .2; if thawed? ...; else !!!' --> '(set! .2 (call/cc (lambda (k) (set! .1 k) !!!))) ...' 20:30:32 ais523: first, C doesn't have continuations, and second I guess not but still.. 20:30:35 0 isn't an uncommon value. 20:30:40 but maybe I should get it to ABSTAIN #1 FROM NEXTING instead as a notification 20:30:58 in other words, if you've just thawed, turn off procedure calls until the user turns them back on 20:31:12 that way you wouldn't need to do an if, you'd just do the call and if you'd just thawed, nothing would happen 20:31:18 then you'd turn them back on on the next line 20:31:37 that's more INTERCAL-style, I'll do that and it still has the same syntax 20:31:48 ais523: you'll need closures 20:31:51 hmm 20:31:51 maybe not 20:32:03 ais523: ah, wait 20:32:11 ais523: it's useful for a continuation-using procedure to be able to return after a call/cc 20:32:16 if you can just call a procedure it's not that useful 20:32:25 ehird: but you can return 20:32:40 why do you think you wouldn't be able to? 20:33:01 in INTERCAL it's even possible to return from a different procedure than the one you're in at the moment, which causes hilarity to ensue 20:33:08 ais523: oh, good. 20:33:14 then you just have to return 2 levels down 20:33:18 very good 20:33:19 DO RESUME #2 20:33:31 ais523: what's the syntax for intercal procedure calls? 20:33:36 DO (1000) NEXT 20:33:49 but the same syntax is also used for GOTOs 20:34:04 you just have to discard the return address immediately afterwards with DO FORGET #1 20:35:00 lol, ick and yuk 20:35:35 ais523: what about a string with 'hello world' in it 20:35:37 100231238123 lines? ;) 20:35:57 it's nontrivial, but I've got a copy lying around somewhere, I'll paste it if you like 20:36:25 ais523: not a printing one 20:36:28 i mean something i can give to a procedure 20:36:44 ehird: I know 20:36:53 * ehird is thinking of a page that displays 'Hello, world!' and an OK box, then 'Goodbye, world!' and an OK box, then loops 20:36:54 :D 20:36:57 so, in pseudocode 20:37:11 while 1: show_msg('Hello, world!'); show_msg('Goodbye, world!') 20:37:21 DO;1<-#3 20:37:23 DO;1SUB#1<-#48376$#10752 20:37:23 DO;1SUB#2<-#28676$#2836 20:37:23 PLEASE;1SUB#3<-#61120$#896 20:37:24 where, of course, show_msg stores a continuation then kills off the current execution thread 20:37:38 ais523: oh, that's not too bad 20:37:55 (that's machine-generated of course, and is compressed as 4 bytes to the array element and so needs to be unpacked before printing) 20:43:48 hmm... I need to generate unique numbers for each continuation 20:44:08 that means storing the lowest unused number somewhere were it won't be affected by continuation resumes 20:44:15 hmm, maybe intercal should have a module system for registering line numbers 20:44:22 maybe I can store it in a separate thread 20:44:29 or some kind of tree structure rather than line numbers at all 20:44:53 olsner: we have something 'better', in a twisted sense of the word. Because all known INTERCAL programs are stored in the same place, you can just look at them and pick a line number that doesn't conflict 20:45:03 however I admit that that isn't ideal 20:46:01 ehird: correction, that Hello, world! string was obviously packed 8-to-the-element, or there's no way it would fit in just 3 elements 20:49:05 ais523: ah 20:49:14 ais523: maybe there should be a string library 20:49:15 that lets you do that 20:49:16 ;) 20:49:28 ehird: generally we use yapp.i in the INTERCAL distribution 20:49:45 it's a filter that reads in a string on stdin and outputs an INTERCAL program that prints that string on stdout 20:50:33 you can then just extract the relevant parts, allowing for the Turing Tape pointer (that is, C-INTERCAL string I/O specifies characters to output as offsets mod 256 from the previous character output, so you need to keep a state variable to do I/O correctly) 20:51:44 ais523: ah, but the concisity would help 20:51:51 & the fact that it would be less manual 20:52:05 ehird: yes, it would be useful to have a string library 20:52:22 a program for producing packed strings, and subroutines for printing them 20:52:30 ais523: well, printing them and unpacking them and.. 20:52:30 maybe some things for input too 20:52:50 extract individual characters, substring match... 20:52:56 maybe even regexps while we're at it 20:58:36 ais523: heh 21:01:26 * ais523 just found this in the Emacs changelog: "The old bindings C-M-delete and C-M-backspace have been deleted" 21:01:37 I wonder how many people got caught out trying to use them before? 21:03:08 lol 21:21:31 -!- ais523 has quit (""Going home""). 21:21:38 LMAO 21:22:45 I use those bindings all the time! 21:23:51 much simpler than good old M-x reboot and M-x kill-x-server 21:28:38 -!- RedDak has quit (Remote closed the connection). 21:29:59 j0 21:38:41 * pikhq mutters at #gsoc 21:38:56 There may or may not be a deadline extension for Google Summer of Code applications. 21:39:29 hm 21:43:25 "may or may not"? what's the use of having that information? 21:43:41 olsner: None. 21:43:48 It's just irritating as fuck. 21:44:03 The deadline, BTW, is tomorrow. 21:44:09 (5:00 PST) 21:44:25 olsner: Maybe you're an intuitionist, and doesn't believe in the excluded middle :o 21:44:32 So there's a third option or something 21:45:53 ah yes, a v \+a /= T if the middle is not excluded 21:47:38 -!- slereah_ has quit ("Konversation terminated!"). 22:07:50 -!- RedDak has joined. 22:21:39 -!- RedDak has quit (Remote closed the connection). 22:33:00 -!- ehird has changed nick to ehirDoxCoding. 22:33:17 -!- ehirDoxCoding has changed nick to ehird. 22:37:51 Hmm, people aren't warming up to my idea 22:37:53 :-( 22:38:22 what was it 22:39:10 http://www.osdev.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16641&sid=fc48cb502be44b2cb268e10886963cb7 22:39:26 You can ignore the session id I suppose 22:39:31 osdev.org? neat 22:40:17 yeah, its a neat site 22:40:39 i know it 22:43:09 It seems like there's some people who just don't get my idea, and some people who don't think its worthwhile. No one says "Hmm, that might have real-world applicability!" 22:44:20 wildhalcyon: it seems to be a good debate 22:44:27 wildhalcyon: but your idea has no real-world applicability 22:44:29 that is true 22:44:33 Its a great debate, actually. 22:44:33 interesting in theory 22:45:01 "interesting" is the best response I've received so far. 22:47:21 Surely this is not for Real World systems but is supposed to be esoteric? 22:47:29 SimonRC: I sure hope so 22:48:21 Well, its not meant to be quite as esoteric as you might think. 22:48:51 Remove the 2D spatial programming language (fungeoid) and replace it with something more conventional. That's really the only esoteric part about it 22:49:04 http://www.osdev.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16587 lollynoob is more like lollyidiot 22:49:05 :p 22:51:49 wildhalcyon: Dex is funny 22:52:09 did you see when he left the forum dramatically and said he was going to get rich from a web os? 22:52:34 The problem is that lollynoob starts with a bad argument, makes a good point, then screws up with the rest of it. 22:52:50 Who is dex? 22:53:24 wildhalcyon: osdev.org user 22:53:45 I haven't seen anything of him. But I just joined the site this week 22:55:04 wildhalcyon: I visited the old osdev.org a few times 22:55:36 it was a forum on mega-tokyo.com: http://www.mega-tokyo.com/forum/ 22:55:46 which also housed stuff for agi development 22:55:55 (agi = sierra adventure game engine) 22:56:00 ehird, it seems like it has potential, but I don't know if OS development is quite the right forum for this anyways 22:56:30 & the best users on osdev.org are the ones from mt 22:56:34 Brendan, etc 22:56:51 Im starting the idea off as a simulation anyways. gamedev.net is probably better suited. 23:22:17 -!- Sukoshi` has changed nick to Sukoshi. 23:26:43 -!- jix has quit ("CommandQ"). 23:41:50 -!- timotiis has quit ("leaving").