00:00:00 --- log: started forth/05.07.03 00:53:43 morning all GMT+2 people 03:50:39 --- join: pnkfelix (~pnkfelix@denali.ccs.neu.edu) joined #forth 05:03:11 exit 05:03:16 --- quit: pnkfelix ("Leaving") 05:04:37 Morning, virl. 05:12:43 fuck 05:12:47 Mono is such a bad idea 05:14:45 hmm, why? 05:15:26 it's so much overhead 05:15:57 its the same with .net, so.. 05:18:10 so .. what? .net is a bad idea too 05:19:31 exactly, both are bad ideas and java is another bad idea. 05:22:59 a forth system with some good modern design decisions would be the right thing. 05:24:42 Most forthers should consider it to be "not forth!!!!" though. :) 05:27:43 no blocks and such things... 05:29:51 Heh. 05:30:02 OK, now you're out of the 60s. What next? ;) 05:30:56 stream files.. 05:31:51 virl: I like blocks 05:33:19 There ususally isn't much point to use blocks on most computers. 05:33:34 Especially since you usually need a file system for non-Forth source purposes. 05:46:02 blocks only make sense on a forth system which runs native. 05:47:02 And when there's nothing but forth on the system. 05:47:18 I mean, it's not like text documents benefit from no FS 05:56:15 and a standardized way to access network, sound, graphics. etc. 05:56:56 Have fun implementing that. :) 05:58:13 hell, I don't want to implement that. 05:58:33 Oh. 05:58:57 You don't like writing drivers for the 1k+ cards floating around? :) 05:59:01 maybe somewhere in the future, but that won't be a java replacement. 05:59:27 which 1k+ cards? 06:00:02 Check the Linux driver list. :) 06:00:05 at the time I have a lot of todo to implement my forth system on the XGS. 06:00:32 Ah.. well, on a standardized platform it's of course much easier. 06:07:31 which platform, a software or a hardware? 06:09:01 --- join: PoppaVic (~pete@0-1pool46-194.nas30.chicago4.il.us.da.qwest.net) joined #forth 06:09:21 Hardware. 06:09:29 I assume you're writing the software. 06:09:30 Mornin' 06:09:32 And hi, PoppaVic 06:09:55 howdy 06:10:02 * virl is now confused 06:12:10 what's the confusion? (bearing in mind I'm on the first coffee) 06:13:16 I talked about a standardized forth system, not a standardized hardware. 06:13:54 Hmm 06:14:09 Well, it seems quite unlikely to truly occur 06:15:09 However, I'll keep puttering - I've other goals ;-) 06:16:59 me to, but when to replace .net,mono,java it could be perfectly made with a haevy standardized forth system 06:17:40 forget "replace", but consider "alternative" or "instead of" 06:18:12 it was only an idea. 06:18:21 Look at me, now.. I want this Metabuilder project to succeed, but it isn't remotely intended to replace GNU Autoshit. 06:19:31 when you do it better and it would be in every system then you could. 06:19:44 Instead, it will merely offer - at least initially - to offer similarities w/o all the insanity. 06:20:42 well, *I* have no interest in trying to understand enough autoshit to convert every package on the planet. 06:21:03 ..and the latter would be insanely time-consuming. 06:24:33 In fact.. I'd have been much, much further along at this point if I had not gotten seriously peeved and begun work on this bloody TIL. ALas, I figure that w/o the TIL - written portably in C - then there is not much point to all the other work. 06:30:11 THe hillarious part is... The lispers want me to learn lisp; The forthers generally use asm; and C'ers use C ;-) 06:30:15 --- join: Topaz (~top@spc1-horn1-6-0-cust117.cosh.broadband.ntl.com) joined #forth 07:11:39 and how does your 'metabuilder' work? 07:13:26 It doesn't... yet. 07:13:38 Gotta' write a decent TIL first 07:13:46 ..THen finish Minish 07:13:55 and, finally, hammer the Metabuilder 07:15:17 Trying right now to decide if I want to write all the code manually, or write a "generator". 07:15:36 --- quit: Topaz (Remote closed the connection) 07:19:42 with what do you describe the package? 07:19:54 how do you mean? 07:20:34 the project I'm beating, or what the thing will work upon? 07:21:19 in autoconf you write a script to describe a package how is your approach? 07:21:27 oh. 07:21:45 I _had_ ideas, but the idea of the TIL will end up changing them. 07:22:49 I suspect there are two ways: 1) literally cross-compile a turnkey script/program to do all the building/install/etc; or 2) write a perfectly portable 'script' that does the same on the target. 07:24:39 The prob with autoshit is: there are so godDAMNED many tools, syntaxes and semantics that it takes forever to use well. 07:25:03 further, itself depends on programs that themselves are not always portable. 07:26:37 by creating a decently-portable TIL we get lexing, parsing, and extensibility; by writing Minish I get a portable shell; ANd Metabuilder will base itself on that system. 07:29:02 remember too: even sh and GNU make are not universal, sadly. It's buggin' me shitless, but I'll deal with that one way or the other. 07:36:58 well, I'm gonna' go off and do a few chores.. Back laters.. 07:37:00 --- quit: PoppaVic ("Pulls the pin...") 09:00:39 --- join: tathi (~josh@tathi.bronze.supporter.pdpc) joined #forth 09:08:14 --- quit: saon ("leaving") 09:12:00 --- join: PoppaVic (~pete@0-1pool75-83.nas24.chicago4.il.us.da.qwest.net) joined #forth 09:15:29 OK.. maybe _now_ I can write some code today ;-) 09:32:36 That's a good thing, I suppoes. 09:32:40 suppose 09:33:50 Yeah, if the mind-meshes 09:52:57 --- join: Herkamire (~jason@c-24-218-95-147.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) joined #forth 09:52:57 --- mode: ChanServ set +o Herkamire 09:53:30 lo, Herk 09:53:35 --- nick: Herkamire -> JasonWoof 09:53:51 hi PoppaVic 10:05:04 --- join: swsch (~s@p54924470.dip.t-dialin.net) joined #forth 10:06:51 --- quit: swsch (Client Quit) 10:13:25 hi everyone 10:13:41 lo 10:14:37 Hi 10:14:45 hi crc 10:37:01 --- quit: OrngeTide ("l8r") 11:05:12 --- quit: PoppaVic ("Pulls the pin...") 11:06:46 --- join: PoppaVic (~pete@0-1pool47-4.nas30.chicago4.il.us.da.qwest.net) joined #forth 11:14:47 --- join: Topaz (~top@spc1-horn1-6-0-cust117.cosh.broadband.ntl.com) joined #forth 11:33:09 --- join: saon (~saon@c-66-177-224-222.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #forth 11:33:22 --- nick: saon -> saon|smgl 11:33:58 --- join: saon (~saon@c-66-177-224-222.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #forth 11:34:09 I'm getting extremely peeved 11:37:20 why? 11:37:58 because I can't trust in make, or shells or any goddamned thing to build OR install my goddamned Metabuilder. 11:38:16 heh 11:38:37 well, it's irksome 11:39:21 I'm thinking of writing a braindead Makefile to serially generate C programs; or a damned interpreter to prompt and build same-same. 11:39:58 * crc understands. I've grown to dislike "make" over the last few months 11:41:48 I loved 'make' - until I learned that there are about 3+ and every goddamned one is incompatible 11:41:59 heh 11:42:01 yeah 11:42:18 and using shell scripts is even worse 11:42:28 worse, the fuckers let you define the "shell" and THOSE are not even remotely portable 11:42:55 I see two possibilities... 11:43:18 1) write a purely C program; 2) write the most simple-minded Makefile I can. 11:44:04 I'm leaning toward the former and a textfile akin to the latter FOR the former. 11:44:20 --- quit: saon|smgl (Read error: 145 (Connection timed out)) 11:44:45 you can't even depend on uname & friends 11:45:40 --- quit: saon (Read error: 145 (Connection timed out)) 11:50:41 even pkg-config is an issue 11:59:28 re.. 12:15:16 but you can depend on gcc :) 12:15:27 yeah, I have to 12:16:22 I'll have to write it for me/now; try on linux; *bsd and others - hoping all the testers can code alternatives 12:22:22 shit.. I give up for today.. Laters, guys - back tomorrow... 12:22:24 --- quit: PoppaVic ("Pulls the pin...") 12:22:48 --- join: saon|smgl (~saon@c-66-177-224-222.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #forth 12:22:50 --- join: saon (1000@c-66-177-224-222.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #forth 13:10:34 --- quit: swalters (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)) 14:00:23 --- quit: alexander_ (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)) 14:15:40 --- quit: saon|smgl ("leaving") 14:16:36 --- join: saon|smgl (~saon@c-66-177-224-222.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #forth 14:34:19 --- join: TheBlueWizard (TheBlueWiz@ts001d0608.wdc-dc.xod.concentric.net) joined #forth 14:34:39 Hi, Wizard. 14:35:47 --- quit: saon ("leaving") 14:35:54 --- join: saon (1000@c-66-177-224-222.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #forth 14:36:16 hiya Robert 14:53:39 hi 14:54:01 hiya arke 14:55:25 :) 15:20:03 --- quit: Topaz (Remote closed the connection) 15:23:08 --- join: OrngeTide (~orange@rm-f.net) joined #forth 15:41:48 --- join: snoopy_16 (snoopy_161@dsl-084-058-133-221.arcor-ip.net) joined #forth 15:42:11 --- quit: Snoopy42 (Nick collision from services.) 15:42:13 --- nick: snoopy_16 -> Snoopy42 15:42:16 --- quit: Snoopy42 (Nick collision from services.) 15:42:28 --- join: Snoopy42 (snoopy_161@dsl-084-058-133-221.arcor-ip.net) joined #forth 15:42:50 --- quit: Snoopy42 (Nick collision from services.) 15:43:02 --- join: Snoopy42 (snoopy_161@dsl-084-058-133-221.arcor-ip.net) joined #forth 16:03:07 bye all 16:03:12 Bye. 16:03:12 --- part: TheBlueWizard left #forth 17:00:33 --- join: dt0x (~user@66.189.37.253) joined #forth 17:00:35 hi 17:03:34 Hi, dt0x. 17:04:05 : ( ; 17:04:05 : ) here >r swap , , r> ; 17:04:05 : cdr cell+ : car @ ; 17:04:09 oops 17:04:16 wrong window :) 17:04:55 Listh? 17:06:23 The start of a lisp-like language in rf 17:07:27 Nice, I think. 17:08:35 ( 10 ( 14 40 ) ) cdr car . 17:08:36 14 17:16:23 listh -- good name :) 17:16:57 Raystm2: how are you 17:17:30 * Raystm2 is well :) 17:17:38 and yourself? 17:17:53 howdy Robert and crc ;) 17:18:45 Hi, Ray :) 17:20:19 not bad. 17:20:28 continuing work on my project :-) 17:22:40 your project is? sorry, i'm often ashamed at my bad memory. :( 17:22:58 the integrated studio pod thing. 17:23:09 (sorry :-) 17:23:38 i can't call it that because Apple will sue me. 17:23:46 so i'll have to think of something else. 17:23:50 oh sure, now that's one cool box :) 17:23:55 I recall now. 17:24:30 hehehe, i have spent some weeks installing it into its own room.... one-piece recording/mastering studio, office, bedroom, study 17:24:30 thanks for sharing that. I can see that thing as a decent product for those who could use but could not build themselves 17:24:43 right i remember. 17:26:34 Raystm2: definitely. i also am unifying the keymaps and working on custom software to make the whole thing easier/more consistent to use 17:27:10 i.e. obviously someone should know something about audio production to use one, but they shouldn't have to have years of Linux experience :-) 17:27:54 that's the winning poing right there in a nutshell. 17:28:00 poing=point even 17:28:10 htheheheh . The Winning Poing. good album title 17:28:42 hehe 17:28:43 NP: shock the monkey 17:29:08 sometime ask me about what shock the monkey means in the Philipeans. 17:29:39 * Raystm2 fixing typos on http://colorforth.info 17:29:42 so I have this "extra" Pentium 4 PC in here. now I am going to mess with Xdmx to ge 17:29:54 to get the 1 keyboard controlling both screens/machines. 17:30:12 very cool. 17:30:35 what have you been up to. how is your business going 17:32:26 on my side: i have been sucked into the Forth mindset (whatever that means) by Eduardo Ochs (http://angg.twu.net ) 17:32:26 17:39:32 I've taken on the responsibility of providing the minimalist programming community with colorforth information at http://colorforth.info 17:40:06 business wise. work is up and down in my day job. 17:40:13 feast or famine. 17:40:41 my night jobs are taking a temporary backseat to colorforth.info 17:41:00 Looks nice. 17:41:14 I want to get that out of the way , started at least, before I go off and make my millions :) 17:41:20 thanks Robert :) 17:41:22 Heh. 17:41:54 okay okay hundreds of thousands then? :) 17:41:58 * Robert is doing two-colored C. 17:42:10 two-colored c hehehehe 17:42:15 black and white :) 17:42:17 Black and green. 17:42:20 ah 17:42:20 Almost. 17:42:25 of course 17:42:28 hehe 17:42:44 I used to hate those Wyse orange and black terminals 17:43:19 Hm, orange and green looks the same to me. 17:43:38 * Raystm2 makes the Programmers File Editor do green on black. 17:44:11 Raystm2: does the minimalist set include Emacs freaks (i.e. all their applications/work inside a lisp interpreter) 17:44:12 its refreshing sometimes, after all those white background pages 17:44:24 * crc does "green onBlack clear" to set make do green on black 17:44:45 s/make/make retroforth/ 17:45:36 lisp could be considered minimalist 17:46:08 * Raystm2 loves lisp and has ignored nay neglected it all year 17:46:08 not common lisp.... 17:46:14 my IRC client is in lisp :-) 17:46:18 I spent a week coding 6502 asm on a monitor that could do only green and black ;) 17:46:29 That was my vacation this summer. 17:46:34 heheh 17:46:52 * crc admins a network that has 12 dumb terminals that only do green (or orange) and black 17:47:56 is there any relation between Minimalism and Futurism? 17:48:19 I would have to say I believe there is. 17:48:44 * dt0x reading a book on Futurism right now 17:48:50 reason: Starting the entire task of reinventing every wheel that has been done before. 17:49:29 and then providing things that could have never been done in the previous OS world. 17:49:58 what's the book? 17:51:09 crc: Neat, what's it doing? 17:51:50 crc up till recently , Casters of Fort Worth was all dumb Wyse terminals orange on black. 17:52:28 now we provide the office system thru Anzio terminal emulation on various windows systems. 17:52:31 They run off an AIX box, each is logged into an account that starts Prophet21's Array program 17:52:48 We're slowly moving to a mixed AIX/Windows setup 17:53:15 were on a mixed SCO-UNIX/Windows system at COFW 17:53:20 * crc is going to be using Linux to offload some things from the AIX box 17:53:46 Raystm2: UnixWare or OpenServer? 17:54:06 UnixWare I believe as I don't have access. 17:54:12 ahh 17:54:27 * crc knows that RetroForth/Generic runs on OpenServer 17:54:35 Anzio is the terminal we use to acces the `main frame' 17:55:16 We are fighting the deciision to go fully Windows. 17:55:22 Boss can't make up his mind 17:55:22 don't give in! 17:55:38 Admining a Windows-only network is a pain 17:55:59 * crc also notes that the admin can generally get more $$$ for running a split network too, but that's secondary 17:56:04 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3822829668/qid=1120438600/sr=8-20/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i10_xgl14/002-3949056-8711226?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 17:56:09 the system is actually pretty good as it is -- developed by my boss ( not a programmer but an accountant ) over thirty years. 17:56:14 that's the book. (sorry for delay... keyboard batteries ran out in mid-search :-) 17:56:30 hehehe 17:56:50 crc: Admin wants us to go to FoxPro. 17:56:59 Fire the admin 17:57:05 yes indeed :) 17:57:13 I will tell Boss you said so :) 17:57:25 ok 17:57:54 Windows is too unreliable to run for any serious work 17:59:41 I keep telling boss that i love the old system, and this has had weight in the argument. I keep telling him that the 30 odd years he's been developing the old system has been worth the investment, that he has a truely remarkable system in house now. 18:00:35 I would love to re-write it in a forth. 18:00:45 yeah 18:01:16 I've been telling the boss that if he did, he could give it freely on the web and sell the manuals. 18:01:32 this would be great PR for the company. 18:01:57 and the software may be his greatest asset. 18:02:14 yeah 18:02:38 * crc is working to eventually move away from Array and to a custom app I'm writing in RetroForth 18:02:43 100's of thousands of companies start up each year, and they all need great software to be competitive. 18:02:59 our system has kept us ahead of competition. 18:05:33 I've worked for some of the competiton , all using PEACHTREE and all haveing very detrimental problems 18:07:33 my Boss is credited with making two very important decisions in our industry. First to import. ( actually taught factories overseas how to build our products -- now they compete with us also ) and that great software system, that makes us able to provide sameday/nextday service. 18:08:20 so why are they considering giving it up? 18:08:35 When I started with this company -- every other company in our industry was shipping in 4-6 weeks, We changed that. 18:08:59 That's the advice of outsourced ADMIN. 18:09:28 he's got the licence for FOXPRO and wants us to `upgrade'. 18:09:51 He would take a FOXPRO that he's sold to another company and adapt it to us. 18:10:27 Which of course would require years to accomplish if he does this alone, at 75 dollars an hour. 18:10:32 yup 18:10:37 that's why he wants to do it 18:10:47 Yes, I agree. 18:10:59 Boss has hesitated ever since I returned. 18:11:00 * crc would recommend keeping what you have, making changes to that if they're needed 18:11:10 absolutely. 18:11:27 hmm 18:11:41 accidentally reformat the admin's hard drive? 18:11:42 A few courses in database and networking and I believe I could administor. 18:11:47 ahahahahaa 18:12:50 it'd solve some problems. An admin that can't protect his own system is worthless. 18:13:47 infact, monday I think i'll look into this `courses' thing and put it to the boss. 18:13:57 cool 18:14:06 * crc wishes you luck there 18:14:14 I could use the knowledge anyway and he would benifit ultimately. 18:14:55 Besides, courses I need are all online. rigth? 18:15:01 I'd assume so 18:16:21 I couldn't do all the things i'd like to do if I were two people, but that's not stopping me :) 18:26:16 index.htm up but i still have to connect it to ABOUTUS 18:28:34 http://colorforth.info 18:30:22 nice :) 18:30:22 - 18:31:44 I like it. :) 18:31:57 but... 18:32:14 * tathi report Raystm to the Apostrophe Protection Society (http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/) 18:32:17 :) 18:32:25 grr, reports even 18:33:15 * Raystm2 checks out this link :) 18:33:42 (you've got a couple of "it's" where you should have "its") 18:33:45 hahahaha okay olay 18:33:52 right hehe 18:34:03 glad to be corrected. 18:34:25 many years since HS english, in which i only ever got a C :) 18:34:56 :) 18:35:02 * Raystm2 re-reads the site with this in mind. 18:35:33 I'm lucky, I grew up in a family obsessed with the English language (word games and such). 18:35:52 Please be aware that /me went to a special HS were I build a radio station and camped out there for four years 18:36:26 verbally i'm a charmer, in text you will be disgusted.\ 18:36:32 I know a couple of other people who did that, oddly enough :) 18:36:53 really, get there names they should be immediately medicated. 18:37:17 :) 18:37:23 "it's shallow depths", "it's infancy", "it's own environment and language" 18:37:30 really? you seem to do all right 18:37:45 or...you've been treated for this disorder already? ;) 18:37:50 hahaha 18:37:59 no i'm still on the loose. :) 18:38:08 I've never been captured. 18:38:21 still looking over shoulder tho. 18:39:15 I think I type faster than I think. 18:39:33 the hand is quicker than the eye? 18:39:42 agreed 18:46:42 Hey Robert, you know that obfuscated Java site you posted a couple of days back? 18:47:20 well...one of the points was a diatribe against automated code tidiers. 18:47:57 and...I noticed that the point talking about misleading indentation on nested if/else code was actually correct indentation. 18:48:02 so I wrote the guy about it. 18:48:18 turns out he ran an automatic tidy on his site, and it mucked it up. :) 18:48:34 mucked it up = corrected it 18:53:13 HEHE 18:53:52 it's' fixed :) 18:54:40 thanks tathi -- you will get a spelling corrections ack -- what url would you like it to point to ? 18:56:00 * Raystm2 moves on to Contact page. 18:56:12 then LINKS 18:56:19 Then MLIST 18:56:29 then the FAQ can begin 19:03:59 bah, I don't need an acknowledgement. 19:04:17 okay -- I am in your debt ;) 19:05:19 * Raystm2 is remembering to try to say it is when ever i need it's and its when it is doesn't work thanks to tathi -- there's your ack :) 19:09:29 grr stupid software 19:09:53 still can't get mod_perl and apache to play nice 19:13:32 so... what the hell, I'm going to try lighttpd 19:19:16 JasonWoof did i tell ya I like the site color thing you did, very cool indeed. 20:00:35 --- quit: saon|smgl ("Lost terminal") 20:01:32 --- join: saon|smgl (~saon@c-66-177-224-222.hsd1.fl.comcast.net) joined #forth 20:26:23 --- join: kunphuzil (~Jason@ip-69-10-124-17.cableaz.net) joined #forth 20:36:15 --- quit: tathi ("'night all") 20:58:31 --- quit: dt0x (Remote closed the connection) 23:59:59 --- log: ended forth/05.07.03