On 3 Mar 2007, at 07:22, _why wrote:
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 03:29:18PM +0900, Dave T. wrote:
On any other language list, if I announced a book on a different
language, I’d get flamed until crisp.
You should do one on VBScript. I’d like to see what that reaction
would be like. For my own purposes.
A couple of years ago when I was doing real-time VB I’d have been up
for writing that 
Ellie
Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason
I agree full-heartedly.
The responses to my adopt-a-newbie suggestion were totally amazing
(search on ML) and led to the establishment of RubyMentor (
http://rubymentor.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl ).
Amazing community!
On 06.03.2007 11:52, Eleanor McHugh wrote:
On 3 Mar 2007, at 07:22, _why wrote:
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 03:29:18PM +0900, Dave T. wrote:
On any other language list, if I announced a book on a different
language, I’d get flamed until crisp.
You should do one on VBScript. I’d like to see what that reaction
would be like. For my own purposes.
A couple of years ago when I was doing real-time VB I’d have been up for
writing that
Ouch! Did you mention “real time” and “VB” in one sentence? I know
that “real time” mostly just means “guaranteed response times” but in my
mental world VB and real time don’t mix very well. (Which probably only
means that I have to adjust my mind.)
Amazing…
robert
On 6 Mar 2007, at 12:40, Robert K. wrote:
Ouch! Did you mention “real time” and “VB” in one sentence? I
know that “real time” mostly just means “guaranteed response times”
but in my mental world VB and real time don’t mix very well.
(Which probably only means that I have to adjust my mind.)
Amazing…
To the best of my knowledge I’m the only person who’s ever had a pure
VB5 system certified for aviation use. Needless to say I avoid flying
whenever possible - who knows what other horrors lurk in the cockpit…
Of course if I still worked for that company I’d probably be doing a
Rails version ;p
Ellie
Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason
On 7 Mar 2007, at 11:54, Robert D. wrote:
To the best of my knowledge I’m the only person who’s ever had a pure
VB5 system certified for aviation use.
You mean you can use it inside an airplane, right. Not to operate an
airplane surely
It was a cockpit navigation/mission planning system, so in theory yes
it could operate an airplane. I don’t think anyone was ever quite
that trusting though lol
Ellie
Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason
On 07.03.2007 13:04, Eleanor McHugh wrote:
trusting though lol
What happened to it? Was it one of the many IT projects that got
canceled half way?
Kind regards
robert
On 3/6/07, Robert K. [email protected] wrote:
On 06.03.2007 11:52, Eleanor McHugh wrote:
Ouch! Did you mention “real time” and “VB” in one sentence? I know
that “real time” mostly just means “guaranteed response times” but in my
mental world VB and real time don’t mix very well. (Which probably only
means that I have to adjust my mind.)
Well, writing apps in VB can take a real(ly long) time…
On 7 Mar 2007, at 12:55, Robert K. wrote:
What happened to it? Was it one of the many IT projects that got
canceled half way?
Oh no, it made it into production: http://www.skyforceobserver.com/
I had absolutely nothing to do with the MK II or MK III versions but
I’m assuming they’ll have switched from VB to something more industry-
standard. I seem to recall a lot of talk about “industry best
practices” but hey, that’s for kind of people who like writing
version 2.0’s >;D
Ellie
Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds_to? :reason
On 3/5/07, David K. [email protected] wrote:
My experience with Erlang is -very- limited, but I thought it seemed like it
had potential. By focusing on something that isn’t really covered too much
in other languages and trying to be really good at it, it separates itself
from the crowd nicely (imho at least 
). I’ve heard that the web server
written in Erlang (don’t remember the name, sorry) is really good at
handling heavy loads without shirking. If it could be configured to serve
Rails apps… hey, best of both worlds! 
ErlyWeb (framework) and Yaws (server).
Bil K. wrote:
http://erlang.se/doc/doc-5.4/doc/getting_started/part_frame.html
Neat.
Thanks for the shove,
Bil K.
http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov
I went one better – installed Erlang and wings3d! Perhaps the poster
who gets segfaults in Ubuntu could email me the test case off list??
–
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P)
http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/
If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given
rabbits fire.
Dave T. wrote:
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/jaerlang/
Ordered.
While waiting for the PDF to arrive, I complied Erlang on
my OSX box and wrote some simple code via the fine online
tutorial:
http://erlang.se/doc/doc-5.4/doc/getting_started/part_frame.html
Neat.
Thanks for the shove,
My experience with Erlang is -very- limited, but I thought it seemed
like it
had potential. By focusing on something that isn’t really covered too
much
in other languages and trying to be really good at it, it separates
itself
from the crowd nicely (imho at least ). I’ve heard that the web
server
written in Erlang (don’t remember the name, sorry) is really good at
handling heavy loads without shirking. If it could be configured to
serve
Rails apps… hey, best of both worlds!
Dave Kapp
http://www.dobeeploop.com