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jsgrahamus | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year

I thought TIL stood for Threaded Interpretive Language, as per Forth or Factor

jsgrahamus | 11 years ago | on: Pharo 4.0 Released

I installed this for Ubuntu 12.04. When I fired it up, it requested I choose and build a source file (different from Pharo 3). Then when it started, it said, "Pharo cannot locate the source file named /usr/lib/pharo-vm/PharoV40.sources.

Any ideas what to do?

TIA, Steve

jsgrahamus | 11 years ago | on: LambdaNative – A cross-platform development environment written in Scheme

Mark,

I believe you reviewed mocl. It would be interesting to see your comparison of the two.

jsgrahamus | 11 years ago | on: How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather

Wonderful idea. I had a similar thought for a particular set of books using a browser (in large mode) for controlling.

Congratulations!!!

jsgrahamus | 11 years ago | on: The Dentist Office Software Story

The practitioner software I saw was built in dBASE III or dBASE III+.

jsgrahamus | 11 years ago | on: Elegant Pharo Code

I get an error on a number of the examples when executing them with Pharo 3.0 on Win 7x64. For example:

Unknown character ->(ZnServer startDefaultOn: 8080) onRequestRespond: [ :request | ZnResponse ok: (ZnEntity with: DateAndTime now printString) ]

jsgrahamus | 13 years ago | on: Introducing Clochure: a better Clojure

April Fool's?

jsgrahamus | 13 years ago | on: NYCLU Victory Preserves Right to Walk Around Without ID on NYC Subway

Thanks for the heads up on this very good piece of news.

jsgrahamus | 13 years ago | on: A man, a Plan. No canals (2011)

PG: It could be instructive to be able to compare your new version with what is currently available.

jsgrahamus | 14 years ago | on: Learn the M programming language, and teach it to others.

Great article. I've worked with M for over 2 decades in various healthcare institutions. It's amazing how it has supported multi-user systems from 286's to minicomputers (remember them?) to IBM mainframes to today's servers. In one large company we had the same application running on OpenVMS, Unixware, Linux and Windows. While there are domains in which it is not appropriate, for storing and accessing large amounts of indexed data, it is hard to beat.

And the syntax of the base language does not pose the barrier of entry that some more modern languages might.

Steve

jsgrahamus | 16 years ago | on: 17x17 followup (still unsolved, still worth $289)

What is it that he wants?

jsgrahamus | 16 years ago | on: An iPhone,the 4th amendment & TSA (airport screening) policy "change"

I'm not sure that the average traveler/voter can judge what is good security. What seems plain to me is that there is no totally safe place on this planet and that the better alternative to hoping that TSA has caught the bad guys, is to allow everyone the inalienable right to defend themselves. Could there be a downside to this? Yes, but at least they would be responsible for their own defense and would not have been disarmed by their own government.