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3D viewer at work

2006-02-01T10:23:12Z

Hello. I`ve got something to share with you.
I found a new program. This is a 3d viewer with slideshow feature. It
allows one to make 3d presentation with 3d models and audible comments
and change parameters. I`ve made already 3 presentations, lol. I hope
it will help you at your work too. You can download it from

Re: [Taoscript-lang] Thou shan't call thy language 'Tao'...

2005-06-21T20:00:12Z

Hi!

Perhaps, it is also like this in other countries.

I am not sure if that is a general case because Germany is known to

Maybe that's due to bureaucracy - each department of the government makes
rule so that they will not be reponsible if something goes wrong. That's
what often happens in Chinese bureaucracy.

Re: [Taoscript-lang] Thou shan't call thy language 'Tao'...

2005-06-20T21:18:53Z

Hi!

'Kraft' is German for force, 'Heinz' is a German first name, 'Kinder'
is German for 'children'. All three words are trademarks. Some gay
rights group used "Wir gehören zur Familie" (we belong to the family)
and were sent a letter by the company that owned that trademark.

I don't know about the general case but in Germany it is not checked

Re: [Taoscript-lang] Thou shan't call thy language 'Tao'...

2005-06-20T20:58:43Z

Hi!

It is usually difficult for any non-native to pronounce words
correctly.

So far I only knew 'Dao' as a first name of the fictional character
"Dao Lin-H'ay" that occurs in the German SF series 'Perry Rhodan' -
before you ask: she definitely cannot be Chinese because she is a
feline extraterrestrian.

Re: [Taoscript-lang] Thou shan't call thy language 'Tao'...

2005-06-19T15:33:29Z

Hi!

I spent some time to check things on Dao, all of them have nothing to do
with programming language. The only thing worried me is DAO(Data Access
Object), it turn out to be an older technology owned by Microsoft, it's not
a language, but just a programming interface for accessing Access database.

Re: [Taoscript-lang] Thou shan't call thy language 'Tao'...

2005-06-19T10:08:20Z

Hi!
The name of the language is something disturbed me from time to time. I
found it's very hard to find a good name for it, it seems good names are
always used by somebody for something :-(. Before I used another name Yuan
for this language, but it is also used as certain terminologies in Chinese(

[Taoscript-lang] Thou shan't call thy language 'Tao'...

2005-06-16T19:54:15Z

Hi!

TAO is a trademark of Alenia Spazio S.p.A. that is used as the name of
a programming language. To make confusion perfect that aims at
scientific use. For more see:

[link]

Obviously even if one does not fear trademark issues the problem

[Taoscript-lang] For inspirations: 'Frink' language

2005-06-15T15:28:15Z

Hi!

A (more or less) recent freshmeat announcement pointed me to a
programming language called 'Frink'. It is written in Java and has
some interesting features that perhaps may inspire further development
of Tao.

Unfortunately I am not yet sure about the license of Frink - it seems
as if one has to look at the jar file to find it out :-< Frink is at

Re: [Taoscript-lang] rot13.tao reveals Tao (or documentation?) shortcoming :-<

2005-06-13T09:33:31Z

Hi!

What mail user agent (aka mail client) do you use? I use wanderlust

Usually I use the web browser to check and send email in my gmail acount, I
find it is enough convenient, because it can group emails according to
topics, like a forum does. Another reason is, when I register this gmail

Re: [Taoscript-lang] rot13.tao reveals Tao (or documentation?) shortcoming :-<

2005-06-10T19:21:05Z

Hi!

What mail user agent (aka mail client) do you use? I use wanderlust
and rather happen to send answers to too many recipents - Per default
it addresses answers both to the author of a message and to the list
the messages was delivered to - which only makes limited sense because
the author of a message usually is subscribed to that list and

[Taoscript-lang] New read() function: read("<
2005-06-06T11:31:15Z
Hi!

To solve the problem pointed out be Jupp, I have enable read() function to
read multi-lines until a user-define "EOF" is met in a _single_ line. The
syntax is like the following:

string = read( "<<MyEOF" ); # the user-defined "EOF" should be prefixed by
"<<"
read( string, "<<MyEOF" ); # the order of the parameters is not important,

Re: [Taoscript-lang] rot13.tao reveals Tao (or documentation?) shortcoming :-<

2005-06-06T09:08:35Z

This is a re-sended message which was not previously sent to this mailing
list by mistake :)

Hi!

The feature in your first question is not implemented, I will do it.

The command line arguments are stored in an array named COMARG, which has to
be accessed by the current namespace"this", namely, this.COMARG or

[Taoscript-lang] rot13.tao reveals Tao (or documentation?) shortcoming :-<

2005-06-01T21:14:50Z

Hi!

At the end of this message I added rot13 written in Tao. If you do not
know it: rot13 is a Cesar encoding; an implementation of rot13 using
standard Unix tools is

tr '[a-zA-Z]' '[n-za-mN-ZA-M]'

The Tao script works flawlessly - for a single line. I am an old Linux
hand so I have two questions not answered by the documentation.

Re: [Taoscript-lang] Tao development progress

2005-05-19T22:06:26Z

Hi!

If the encoding for the keyword file and script file are the same, there is
no need to specify the charset, the interpreter doesn't care what they
encoded, it just compares the bytes directly when necessary.

Indeed, it would be nice if it can allow users to specify the charset
explicitly, but to do this, it requires a decoder for each charset to map

Re: [Taoscript-lang] Tao development progress

2005-05-18T21:20:26Z

Hi!

Klasse!

I should explain this: 'Klasse' is German for 'class'. As an
exclamation it means 'Great!' :->

Problem: How to describe the character encoding used? Suggestionq an
initial line using the comment character of most scripting languages
as the first character reading something like this: