00:00:00 --- log: started forth/18.03.04 00:00:02 --- quit: brega () 01:24:31 --- join: dual (~bonafide@cpe-24-198-98-113.maine.res.rr.com) joined #forth 01:26:55 --- quit: proteus-guy (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) 01:27:04 --- join: proteus-guy (~proteus-g@183.88.188.150) joined #forth 01:27:11 --- quit: proteusguy (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) 01:28:19 --- join: proteusguy (~proteusgu@183.88.188.150) joined #forth 01:28:19 --- mode: ChanServ set +v proteusguy 03:51:00 --- join: smokeink (~smokeink@awork152250.netvigator.com) joined #forth 04:13:37 --- join: Labu (~mik@mvice.pck.nerim.net) joined #forth 04:24:37 --- quit: wa5qjh (Remote host closed the connection) 05:08:06 --- quit: smokeink (Ping timeout: 268 seconds) 05:11:42 --- join: dys (~dys@tmo-103-161.customers.d1-online.com) joined #forth 05:54:42 pointfree: Thank you very much 06:04:54 --- join: dddddd (~dddddd@unaffiliated/dddddd) joined #forth 06:57:53 --- join: Gromboli (~Gromboli@static-72-88-80-103.bflony.fios.verizon.net) joined #forth 07:40:41 --- quit: proteus-guy (Remote host closed the connection) 08:01:40 --- join: proteus-guy (~proteus-g@2405:9800:bc10:1ca:859:a022:e9e2:d5cf) joined #forth 08:35:34 --- join: xek_ (xek@nat/intel/x-gdcwanqfarbtixny) joined #forth 08:38:16 --- quit: xek (Ping timeout: 248 seconds) 09:16:25 --- join: ncv (~neceve@unaffiliated/neceve) joined #forth 09:35:11 --- join: karswell (~user@cust125-dsl91-135-5.idnet.net) joined #forth 11:10:23 --- quit: dys (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) 13:44:36 --- join: ncv_ (~neceve@unaffiliated/neceve) joined #forth 13:46:47 --- quit: ncv (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) 14:19:35 --- quit: ncv_ (Ping timeout: 248 seconds) 15:40:51 --- join: wa5qjh (~quassel@freebsd/user/wa5qjh) joined #forth 15:49:40 --- quit: nighty- (Quit: Disappears in a puff of smoke) 16:03:36 --- quit: wa5qjh (Remote host closed the connection) 16:25:54 --- join: nighty- (~nighty@kyotolabs.asahinet.com) joined #forth 16:29:38 --- join: wa5qjh (~quassel@175.158.225.217) joined #forth 16:29:38 --- quit: wa5qjh (Changing host) 16:29:38 --- join: wa5qjh (~quassel@freebsd/user/wa5qjh) joined #forth 17:45:55 --- quit: dual (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) 17:59:22 --- quit: Labu (Quit: Leaving.) 18:51:49 --- quit: proteus-guy (Ping timeout: 245 seconds) 19:24:19 --- join: proteus-guy (~proteus-g@14.207.4.220) joined #forth 21:30:24 --- quit: APic (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) 21:36:59 --- join: APic (apic@apic.name) joined #forth 21:41:02 --- quit: Gromboli (Quit: Leaving) 21:41:39 --- join: smokeink (~smokeink@awork152250.netvigator.com) joined #forth 22:06:41 --- quit: lugh (Quit: quitting bouncer) 22:15:43 --- quit: dddddd (Remote host closed the connection) 22:25:39 --- join: stacksmith (~Thunderbi@c-73-157-212-66.hsd1.or.comcast.net) joined #forth 22:56:56 --- join: dys (~dys@tmo-108-30.customers.d1-online.com) joined #forth 23:16:00 Good evening. 23:16:38 I was using forth in a sort of sales pitch yesterday. 23:17:00 Someone had an idea for an app that makes it easier for truckers to calculate their route and I started to make a demo of it in forth 23:17:13 I got it working to the point where he could use it typing words into forth 23:17:44 which platform does your code run on? 23:18:05 I wrote it for gforth but it should be fairly agnostic 23:18:47 I could run it on say a cheap pic if it were compiled forth 23:19:43 i was thought you were running it on car computer 23:20:09 In the morning the truck drivers have to do some quick calculations in their head and some of them are bad at math 23:21:53 They basically have to calculate how much time they are legally allowed to drive left, how much time they are legally able to work even if not driving left, how much time they are allowed to work left in their work week, and how long they are allowed to work until their next brake 23:22:01 And they may have to calculate this while they are driving 23:22:33 isnt such things have plans? 23:22:40 hmm? 23:22:52 like this driver driving today and other tomorrow? 23:23:34 I am not sure that Iunderstand your question 23:24:01 maybe i havnt understand you :D 23:25:02 He wanted me to make a program that would calculate certain legal limitations of their routes 23:25:36 ah, its about routes not schedules? 23:26:55 the drivers have to calculate the limitations of their schedules while they are driving to plan their routes 23:27:14 this calculation is cheap for a computer to do. just the push of a button 23:27:56 is this limitations focus on routes on time period? 23:37:29 Drivers are legally required to have a certain number of hours off after a certain number of hours on. There are some husband/wife teams that "tag team" drive long haul. I did some work for this industry back in the 80s and 90s. Still do logistics for clients today though not long haul trucking. 23:37:57 This is sort of like how some people download an app to calculate their taxes 23:38:11 or how some people download an app to convert scientific units of measurement 23:38:22 an application specific calculator 23:38:50 johnnymacs, just tracking time or also plotting distance? 23:40:38 Ijust did the time management part 23:41:53 sounds like a good little straightforward app. good luck. 23:48:08 It was just fun how easy it was to prototype the program in forth 23:59:59 --- log: ended forth/18.03.04