Matt Curtin <cmcur...@interhack.net> writes: > According to http://www.schemers.org/, the IEEE standard is due to > expire this year and it appears that no one has picked up the ball to > revise it (which is required to prevent expiration).
What would the practical consequences be of the standard expiring?
+--------------- | r...@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) wrote: | > | Isn't it the MIT *LCS* together with the AI Lab? | > | > I stand corrected. It is indeed LCS, together with the EE&CS department. | > (The AI Lab wasn't mentioned, as far as I can see.) | | See: http://www.sciam.com/1999/0899issue/0899dertouzos.html ... | involves some 30 faculty members from the Laboratory for | Computer Science, working in collaboration with the M.I.T. | Artificial Intelligence Lab. +---------------
I guess that's what I get from reading the paper copy -- an unreliable "grep"!! Yes, it was mentioned in the paper version, at the end of the 14th paragraph of the article (on the 3rd page), but not in any of the end-of-article credits where I looked before posting the referenced reply. (*blush*)
So we have LCS, EE&CS, and AI Lab. Anybody else? ;-}
-Rob
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Stig Hemmer <s...@pvv.ntnu.no> writes: > Matt Curtin <cmcur...@interhack.net> writes: > > According to http://www.schemers.org/, the IEEE standard is due to > > expire this year and it appears that no one has picked up the ball to > > revise it (which is required to prevent expiration).
> What would the practical consequences be of the standard expiring?
Yeah, this is kinda like having your "membership" in the American Express Card run out.... Gives the telemarketers an excuse to churn the customer base.
> I tried to use it with ACL 5.0, but it didn't work.
I removed the pre- and postcondition documentation strings which caused ACL 5.0 to fail. The new version of the DBC package is available from the above location.
* Christopher Browne | Are you just a vulgar CLer that read anti-CL sentiment into questions | whether such sentiment was intended or not?
well, I recognize _your_ intent.
| When he has asked about several possible paradigms, and how CL might fit | with them, how, precisely does this represent an implication that CL must | forcibly be "reduced" to use one paradigm?
because the questions asked did not indicate that the requestor understood that multiple paradigms could be supported by one language.
| I think you're seeing a conspiracy of "Evil Schemers" against CL where | there isn't one.
I can beat that: I _know_ you see evil intentions that aren't there. I also think you're stupid who can't see more than one way to read my anti-Scheme articles and go on to fault me for your own poor vision.
#:Erik -- suppose we blasted all politicians into space. would the SETI project find even one of them?
On 09 Aug 1999 14:25:12 +0000, Erik Naggum <e...@naggum.no> wrote:
>* Christopher Browne >| Are you just a vulgar CLer that read anti-CL sentiment into questions >| whether such sentiment was intended or not?
> well, I recognize _your_ intent.
[Snip]
I've read several posts by Erik in which he treats questions as assaults on his favorite language. He may believe that this is some form of advocacy. Take it with a grain of salt. He's done it to me too.
OTOH, he does seem to be quite strong technically, and sometimes he will be of great help.
We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there. -- Dana Gould
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999 11:36:39 -0500, Kenneth P. Turvey
<ktur...@pug1.sprocketshop.com> wrote: >On 09 Aug 1999 14:25:12 +0000, Erik Naggum <e...@naggum.no> wrote: >>* Christopher Browne >>| Are you just a vulgar CLer that read anti-CL sentiment into questions >>| whether such sentiment was intended or not?
>> well, I recognize _your_ intent. >[Snip]
>I've read several posts by Erik in which he treats questions as assaults >on his favorite language. He may believe that this is some form of >advocacy. Take it with a grain of salt. He's done it to me too.
Apparently the (decidedly intended) pun got missed... (What does "Common" translate to in Latin?)
I certainly do take it with a grain of salt.
>OTOH, he does seem to be quite strong technically, and sometimes he >will be of great help.
* Christopher Browne | Apparently the (decidedly intended) pun got missed... (What does | "Common" translate to in Latin?)
I know too much Latin to understand that pun, but here's a better interpretation: an ornithologist I sat beside on a flight which was much too long for his company wondered what I was doing, and once illuminated, he suggested it should be called "Garden Lisp" to avoid the implication you seem to be grasping for, but he was British, so he had an excuse to think in such terms to begin with. I think I like "Garden Lisp", anyway.
| I certainly do take it with a grain of salt.
you know, such a line sounds a lot better without your teeth clenched.
> Although presented in words that syntactically make it appear to refute > my point (which you probably misunderstood, and which I've discussed > with you in private e-mail and won't repeat here),
William asked me about this e-mail and I went to look for it and couldn't find it. I had several other interchanges with people over private e-mail on this and guess I got confused. Sorry 'bout that. (All the @'s and .com's here look alike, I guess.)
[...] > an ornithologist [...] suggested it should be called "Garden Lisp" > [...] but he was British, so he had an excuse to > think in such terms to begin with. I think I like "Garden Lisp", anyway. [...]
I just read the article Kent Pitman mentioned in a recent posting, and there I found a use of `garden':
What has been done is to associate information with the symbol, name, describing any special treatment that is to be given its form before and after the application of the definition--but the function which is applied is just a garden variety function with no special information information attached to it.
