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   by whitten 9y ago

   This brings up the point that the Knuth cheque as a marker of your status is probably worth more than the amount of the checque. So Don Knuth might be writing the checks but they may not be getting cashed.
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   by whitten 9y ago

   This is "interface" programming, and is one of the most common programming tasks. Creating reports can be seen as doing this (convert from machine info to human info) Entry/Editing programs go from human to machine, inter-op
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   by whitten 9y ago

   The vocabulary might be counted using different meanings and not counting meanings that can be created by combining simple meanings. Pat Cassidy is trying to create such a simple vocabulary at micra.com to quote from his website: MICRA is h
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   by whitten 9y ago

   What would it take to make a C API to a binary format parsing package? If you have an itch, you are the best one to know how to scratch it. Everyone else might not see the simplicity that you see.
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   by whitten 9y ago

   What happened to Stuart Schrieber after he was a student at Harvard ?
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   by whitten 9y ago

   Is there a tutorial for building languages that uses an Earley parser? I always have a dream of using a controlled natural language for coding or as a view of existing code.
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   by whitten 10y ago

   Has anybody looked at ThoughtTreasure? Since Nat is willing to accept updates to Open Source Software, this amazing code base would be a good start of AI related stuff. It really could use a better user interface to its databases, for exam
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   by whitten 10y ago

   I think precision is necessary if you expect to use the language to invoke conclusions or as a basis for inference. Ambiguity in this context means you can derive some information but not as much as if it were precise. "The weather is
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   by whitten 10y ago

   For curiosity, what browser does this work in? I tried it in Internet Explorer 11 and got no results.
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    by whitten 10y ago

    This is a great question. MUMPS traditionally have been a container type language with a self-contained instance where the data and programs are built into the container. The language requirements that math operations have to be exact to fi
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    by whitten 10y ago

    What is the best way known to implement the semantics of a language? Generating an abstract syntax tree is nice, but what is the state of the art in abstract semantics ?
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    by whitten 10y ago

    This study reminds me that our computer infrastructure (cables, network connections etc) depend also on the physical infrastructure. For example, If there weren't steam tunnels on campus, it would be a LOT harder to pull fiber optic ca
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    by whitten 10y ago

    So, calling another routine in M doesn't create a child process. Nor does calling a routine in M create a new thread. The "MP" in MUMPS is "Multi-Processing" and you expresses that you can start another "JOB&q
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    by whitten 10y ago

    andris9, you mentioned that the EUPL was more European Union friendly, similar to how GPL is more USA friendly. Do you mind elaborating what you mean by this?
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    by whitten 10y ago

    The first line of defense and encryption is provided by the MUMPS system itself. Both Cache and GT.M provide encryption of the database on the disk. I am not as familiar with Cache's methods recently, but as I recall, GT.M has stated t
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    by whitten 10y ago

    To my knowledge, the number of non-profit hospitals is definitely getting smaller. This can affect the amount of indigent care significantly. I've heard of for-profit hospitals that cut maternity/OB-GYN services because the number
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    by whitten 10y ago

    I wonder if the http://www.worldforge.org folks could incorporate this code into their "I want to create worlds" code. This seems to be a useful enhancement.
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    by whitten 10y ago

    I've thought about FUSE filesystems before, as a way to express a data container based language (such as APL, SmallTalk, MUMPS, etc.) as a Unix/Linux filesystem. Basically as a tool to expose the internal data and allow external t
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    by whitten 10y ago

    So when you are an entrepreneur, generating demand for your product after the initial penetration to early adopters submarket is more an issue of understanding the sociology of your overall market and the risk aversive inclination of the la
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    by whitten 10y ago

    Does anyone know of a music theory class that works with GNU Lilypond format files, as discussed on lilypondblog.org ? Thanks in advance !
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    by whitten 10y ago

    I'm interested in Common Logic (a form of First Order Logic that allows for some almost Second Order Logic activities) (info at http://cl.tamu.edu/ ) Does anyone know how much of this "Book of Proof" would re
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    by whitten 10y ago

    What is the schedule for C/C++ rumprun ability ? I'd like to compile some GT.M programs into UniK .
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    by whitten 10y ago

    is there anything inherent in the Lua Language that makes it a good match for an in-game-engine programming language?
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    by whitten 10y ago

    Thank you for sharing this. Do you think it can handle multiple parses ?
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    by whitten 10y ago

    There is a programming project in Artificial Intelligence named Shrdlite that is a course given at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. The course also includes the nearley parser to provide a blocksworld, si
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    by whitten 11y ago

    I'm wondering to what extent that this kind of Dataflow Analysis can be used in scripting languages such as Python or MUMPS. Deciding properties over all elements of an array is difficult, just as checking every element is time consum
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    by whitten 11y ago

    Does anyone here have previous experience with this programming system, and how it would be implemented today?
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    by whitten 11y ago

    I agree with you. Unfortunately, I'm not sure archive.org has a clearly delineating way to make it easy to find source code. Many web pages embody some source code as well, but this isn't easy to find and decode. And of course, th
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    by whitten 11y ago

    I use a language originally called MUMPS, with the alternate name of M, which is the core language in Cache Object Script. I use it because it has features that are still not (really) included in more "modern" languages, because i
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    by whitten 11y ago

    Does anyone have an estimate to the difficulty of using Dafny as an annotation to programs written in another programming language? I'm thinking of one on a different OS (Linux) than the MS Windows OS for which Dafny appears to be writ