00:00:00 --- log: started forth/17.01.21 00:03:12 --- quit: DocPlatypus (Ping timeout: 276 seconds) 00:19:10 --- join: DocPlatypus (~skquinn@2601:2c2:c300:ff70:3dc3:7283:b0e1:5551) joined #forth 00:57:08 --- quit: mnemnion (Remote host closed the connection) 01:37:52 --- quit: DocPlatypus (Ping timeout: 255 seconds) 01:55:02 --- join: DocPlatypus (~skquinn@2601:2c2:c300:ff70:fc33:843a:bfe0:502) joined #forth 02:26:53 --- join: true-grue (~true-grue@176.14.222.10) joined #forth 02:39:31 --- quit: DocPlatypus (Ping timeout: 255 seconds) 02:52:23 --- join: DocPlatypus (~skquinn@2601:2c2:c300:ff70:40fd:96a3:6f:b3b) joined #forth 03:09:12 --- join: GeDaMo (~GeDaMo@212.225.112.221) joined #forth 03:44:50 --- quit: dys (Ping timeout: 255 seconds) 03:46:13 --- join: dys (~dys@tmo-110-215.customers.d1-online.com) joined #forth 04:58:32 --- quit: dys (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 05:30:31 --- quit: DocPlatypus (Ping timeout: 255 seconds) 05:47:34 --- join: DocPlatypus (~skquinn@2601:2c2:c300:ff70:4826:6983:fadc:430f) joined #forth 06:07:50 one complaint I have about forth: I'm terrible at naming things. when you use a c-like language most of the time you're naming variables and types, which I have almost two decades of experience doing. in forth, however, you spend much time naming variables or types and instead name very granular code chunks. I feel like my coder vocabulary is conditioned for coming up with descriptive nouns and not verbs 06:07:56 ! 06:08:25 s/much/more 06:08:34 -and 06:09:45 god that whole thing is written like english is my second language 06:11:22 oh I see what happened. part of one sentence appeared twice. that should have said "when you use a c-like language most of the time you're naming variables and types, which I have almost two decades of experience doing. in forth, however, you spend more time naming very granular code chunks." 06:11:54 should never try to restructure a long message in a one-line 80-column input buffer 06:36:23 --- join: mnemnion (~mnemnion@2601:643:8102:7c95:7910:4be0:500e:3ae1) joined #forth 06:40:42 --- quit: mnemnion (Ping timeout: 255 seconds) 07:21:01 zy]x[yz: a thesaurus is a useful tool for a programmer 07:22:13 yeah 07:29:25 dzho, yeah that Redpower machine is pretty cool stuff. 07:34:10 --- join: dys (~dys@tmo-112-132.customers.d1-online.com) joined #forth 08:01:32 --- join: Zarutian (~zarutian@168-110-22-46.fiber.hringdu.is) joined #forth 08:01:56 --- quit: Zarutian (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 08:03:34 --- join: Zarutian (~zarutian@168-110-22-46.fiber.hringdu.is) joined #forth 10:48:34 --- join: mnemnion (~mnemnion@71.198.73.193) joined #forth 10:49:12 --- join: circ-user-jNagg (~circuser-@2602:304:4159:4770:816c:137a:ba42:758d) joined #forth 11:38:58 --- join: boinkboink (~clarsen@unaffiliated/boinkboink) joined #forth 11:44:53 I'll be selling ($10) copies of "Australian Forth Symposium" on January 28th at the upcoming SV-FIG meeting. Preview scan of the cover, table of contents, and first page of each article: http://odroid.0xffffffff.in/~deploy/fig-book-of-the-month/01-2017/ 11:54:57 --- join: mtsd (~mtsd@customer-46-39-122-235.stosn.net) joined #forth 11:55:51 --- quit: Zarutian (Quit: Zarutian) 12:00:53 "Forth and Prolog"... Good old days :) 12:23:59 --- join: rgrinberg (~rgrinberg@24-246-56-85.cable.teksavvy.com) joined #forth 12:50:09 --- quit: DocPlatypus (Ping timeout: 255 seconds) 13:02:28 --- join: DocPlatypus (~skquinn@2601:2c2:c300:ff70:74a3:da6e:ace2:3604) joined #forth 13:12:34 --- quit: GeDaMo (Remote host closed the connection) 13:21:12 --- quit: mtsd (Quit: leaving) 13:53:58 --- join: Zarutian (~zarutian@168-110-22-46.fiber.hringdu.is) joined #forth 13:55:29 --- quit: Zarutian (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 13:55:29 --- join: Zarutian_ (~zarutian@168-110-22-46.fiber.hringdu.is) joined #forth 13:55:29 --- nick: Zarutian_ -> Zarutian 15:06:03 --- join: JL (~user@173-160-167-234-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net) joined #forth 15:07:54 So beneath me is a $40 phone 15:08:07 in that phone is a processor, ram and storage, inputs, and a screen 15:08:20 this gives me everything I need to start spinning up a forth 15:08:48 In theory I should be able to do some pretty interesting stuff with just what I have here 15:19:52 --- quit: JL (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 15:22:38 --- join: JL (~user@173-160-167-234-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net) joined #forth 15:29:14 I think it's going to be a rough start as long as the phone is beneath you 15:41:06 --- quit: JL (Remote host closed the connection) 15:41:19 --- join: JL (~user@173-160-167-234-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net) joined #forth 15:51:06 --- quit: JL (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 16:21:03 --- quit: true-grue (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 16:40:30 --- join: JL (~user@173-160-167-234-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net) joined #forth 16:53:08 --- quit: JL (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 17:01:58 --- join: JL (~user@173-160-167-234-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net) joined #forth 17:09:44 --- quit: dys (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 17:13:17 --- join: dys (~dys@tmo-099-104.customers.d1-online.com) joined #forth 17:33:02 --- quit: JL (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 17:50:44 --- quit: Zarutian (Quit: Zarutian) 18:39:44 --- quit: dys (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 18:48:23 --- join: dys (~dys@tmo-113-173.customers.d1-online.com) joined #forth 19:33:12 --- join: dual (~bonafide@subzeroup.core.rzwireless.net) joined #forth 21:07:23 --- quit: DocPlatypus (Ping timeout: 255 seconds) 21:22:09 --- join: DocPlatypus (~skquinn@2601:2c2:c300:ff70:74a3:da6e:ace2:3604) joined #forth 21:47:23 --- quit: proteusguy (Remote host closed the connection) 21:47:50 --- quit: dual (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 21:49:02 --- join: proteusguy (~proteus-g@180.183.135.196) joined #forth 21:49:02 --- mode: ChanServ set +v proteusguy 21:53:52 --- join: dual (~bonafide@subzeroup.core.rzwireless.net) joined #forth 21:55:20 --- quit: proteusguy (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) 21:58:26 --- join: proteusguy (~proteus-g@2405:9800:b400:495c:4a51:b7ff:fe38:d966) joined #forth 21:58:26 --- mode: ChanServ set +v proteusguy 22:09:57 --- quit: dys (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 22:29:20 --- quit: boinkboink (Read error: Connection reset by peer) 23:59:59 --- log: ended forth/17.01.21