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From: Alan Crowe on 12 Mar 2006 07:09 tfb(a)conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick) writes: > > cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous:anonymous(a)common-lisp.net:/project/cells/cvsroot co cells > > The cells-cultures stuff isn't how things are organized anymore. Thank you. I'm following the thread, thinking I must try cells sometime soon: 509 man cvs 510 cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous:anonymous(a)common-lisp.net:/project/cells/cvsroot cocell-cultures/cells 512 cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous:anonymous(a)common-lisp.net:/project/cells/cvsroot co cell-cultures/cells 542 rm -r * 545 cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous:anonymous(a)common-lisp.net:/project/cells/cvsroot co cells 549 history | grep 'cvs\|rm' Alan Crowe Edinburgh Scotland
From: Tayssir John Gabbour on 12 Mar 2006 16:27 goat_roperdillo(a)yahoo.com wrote: > BTW any explication here on these threads should also be in the > Cells documentation. Alternatively, anyone could update the cliki page and cut 'n paste that documentation. You could do that. So could I. Taking initiative is a cost of democratic ideals like transparency and ability to redistribute your modified code. Most people are trained to use software for which pains are taken not to allow them to copy/modify it. And I hear some large percentage of my fellow US citizens (like 80%?) spend much of their lives in workplaces where they don't have serious power over decisionmaking, and are penalized for taking initiative. People are weakened by these sharp divisions (like between consumption and production), but we can break out of them. Collaboration is an important and human activity. Maybe every historically important endeavor we can name required it, when we examine the history closely (even though contemporary culture likes to single out and deify certain individuals, and even through children are graded like beef in a pretense of separating out those who are innately useful for society). So anyway, some people will prefer to specialize on what they wish to do. Ok, so the question becomes, do I have the interest and ability to pick up the slack? If so, maybe I'll do some small thing. Doesn't have to be big; these small things add up. Tayssir
From: Tin Gherdanarra on 9 Apr 2006 15:10 Peter Seibel wrote: > Next month I'm goin to be giving a talk[1] about the effect of > programming language on software architecture. I'm thinking about what > the heck I'm going to say and how to turn it into an oppotunity to > brag on Lisp. So if you have any good war stories about how using Lisp > (or any other language for that matter) had an affect on the > architecture of the system you were working on, I'd love to hear > them. > > -Peter > > [1] April 26th at the Software Architecture and Modeling SIG of > SDForum in Palo Alto > I'm sure this is not what you had in mind, because it does not involve a large application. However, it is interesting how the author attributes his way to important insights to Lisp and documents how he got a different angle on the classic of fibonacci numbers. Maybe you can use it as an appetizer for your talk: http://fare.livejournal.com/59015.html Break a leg.
From: John Thingstad on 10 Apr 2006 13:01 On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 21:10:16 +0200, Tin Gherdanarra <tinman31337(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Peter Seibel wrote: >> Next month I'm goin to be giving a talk[1] about the effect of >> programming language on software architecture. I'm thinking about what >> the heck I'm going to say and how to turn it into an oppotunity to >> brag on Lisp. So if you have any good war stories about how using Lisp >> (or any other language for that matter) had an affect on the >> architecture of the system you were working on, I'd love to hear >> them. >> -Peter >> [1] April 26th at the Software Architecture and Modeling SIG of >> SDForum in Palo Alto >> > > I'm sure this is not what you had in mind, because > it does not involve a large application. However, it > is interesting how the author attributes his way to > important insights to Lisp and documents how he got > a different angle on the classic of fibonacci numbers. > Maybe you can use it as an appetizer for your talk: > > http://fare.livejournal.com/59015.html > > Break a leg. > > This could all be gotten from comp.lang.lisp.. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
From: Tin Gherdanarra on 12 Apr 2006 22:20
John Thingstad wrote: > On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 21:10:16 +0200, Tin Gherdanarra > <tinman31337(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Peter Seibel wrote: >> >>> Next month I'm goin to be giving a talk[1] about the effect of >>> programming language on software architecture. I'm thinking about what >>> the heck I'm going to say and how to turn it into an oppotunity to >>> brag on Lisp. So if you have any good war stories about how using Lisp >>> (or any other language for that matter) had an affect on the >>> architecture of the system you were working on, I'd love to hear >>> them. >>> -Peter >>> [1] April 26th at the Software Architecture and Modeling SIG of >>> SDForum in Palo Alto >>> >> >> I'm sure this is not what you had in mind, because >> it does not involve a large application. However, it >> is interesting how the author attributes his way to >> important insights to Lisp and documents how he got >> a different angle on the classic of fibonacci numbers. >> Maybe you can use it as an appetizer for your talk: >> >> http://fare.livejournal.com/59015.html >> >> Break a leg. >> >> > > This could all be gotten from comp.lang.lisp.. > > I'm glad to hear that, but what exactly does "this all" mean? |