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The goal is probably to make a full system that's based on a higher level language and then start reimplementing various applications on it, hoping that this will lead to less code and thus more rapid development.

See for example another "dynamic toolchain" at: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/pyvm-2.0/

Some people say that such toolchains that can take a high level language for granted are more flexible and can move faster.

Currently one advantage of KDE over GNOME is C++ which is the base language of QT and makes writting gui applications easier indeed. GNOME would like to have a default higher language that's better than C but the choice of C# is arguable.

http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~sxanth/pyvm-2.0/logo.png

On March 4, 1966, in an interview printed in the London Evening Standard, John Lennon made the following statement:

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

The statement, being part of a two page interview, went unnoticed in Britain at the time.

John had said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus meaning that Christianity (and religion in general) were getting so weak and unpopular that a rock 'n' roll group (the Beatles) were more popular than it at the time. He just said it as an example to make his point, that Christianity was not popular among young people, and he certainly didn't want to compare the Beatles with Jesus or to show off himself as being better or greater than Jesus. But when the above statement was printed out of context in Anerican teen Magazine "Datebook" a few months later, great uproar broke out.

I have sometimes used GNU Global which makes indexed html pages of the code. Somewhat similar to lxr but there is no setup, just run two commands, gtags and htags. One nice thing about global is that it can be used on any incomplete subset of a software system. Want to just look at the files in the drivers/net/wireless directory in the linux kernel tree? Fine, just run gtags and htags from that directory (and no other setup is necessary).

I have also used NCC which "compiles" each file and makes a index file with information like "function AAA calls functions BBB, CCC and DDD, reads variables EEE, writes variables FFF and GGG". The format is not exactly like that but you get the idea. NCC includes a text mode gopher-like variable usage/function call browser and there is a script to make graphical call graphs (via dot from graphviz). At work I have also used information from ncc files in combination with with information from the map file to find maximum stack usage.

This study (which I just found while writing this) seems to have an interesting analysis of this topic.

ncc which is a static analyser. It is very interesting because it also analyses pointers to functions and the values assigned to them!

Nicolas Poussin's rendition of the four Arcadian shepherds.

Perhaps the meaning of the cipher can be divined by running the Ecologues through a suitable perl script.

use lightweight c++ . Otherwise Python is the choice.
my 0.2 cents

If you still think member functions are a good idea, you may like the lightweight c++ preprocessor . It adds lightweight c++ features to C.

You wake up in the morning and smell the coffee brewing in your networked coffeemaker. Its smart enough to know not to make coffee if you're not home, or make it a bit later during the weekends.

Been done

Even in a free cryptosystem, one can change little values in the source, and have a specialized algorithm.
Check out for a symmetric cryptosystem which is the hard thing.

First: If PGP is strong, then what's the use of wiretapping telecommunications?

Second: What do you think of Perfect Privacy ?

Unbreakable symmetric cryptography with transparent algorithm. No S-Boxes, magic numbers, etc. A very simple non-linear procedure.

Perfect Privacy is the response. 100% transparent prodecure. Everybody can verify the security of it for themself. Check out the draft.

The publication is freely available. Not patented, and no export laws because it was created outside USA.

A new encryption algorithm is developed. The algorithm is 100% transparent for anyone to review and verify its security. No black boxes or magic numbers. Just the procedure. It uses genetic trees to scramble the data and it is simply unbreakable.

Check out the publication and the free software implementation ( homepage )

Privacy is not negotiable

A new encryption algorithm is developed. The algorithm is 100% transparent for anyone to review and verify its security. No black boxes or magic numbers. Just the procedure. It uses genetic trees to scramble the data and it is simply unbreakable.

Check out the publication and the free software implementation ( homepage )

Privacy is not negotiable

On the other hand, all posts may not be available all of the time if a poster is off-line. And people are responsible for their backups.

It is still BETA and experimental, but usable nontheless. Check it out at here and help in its development.

Usually the problem with anonymity is spamming. postnet seems to solve that.

Thanks

Something like an entirely dynamic GUI has been done. Its a GUI contructed from macro code but widgets execute more macro code and thus can generate more widgets. And the syntax can do any combination of options and sequence of commands.

Check the eShell of the package for it. The GUI is there to serve as a frontend to a database but it could be a general purpose unix shell gui. Moreover it is in primitive "plain TeX" level yet, meaning that it is rather "raw" but great things can be built on it.

Check it out.

The author.

No, I meant Nick Diamos.

try a search for Fletcher Pratt's books

And this is supposed to indicate what? Even if Pratt wrote about the quote in one of his fictions, it's doubtful that the actual text would be found online. The only reference I could find attributing this to Napoleon was on Jerry Pournelle's page, where a fan incorrectly referred to Nick Daimos as Nick Dalius. Jerry was unable to give a definitive source for attributing the quote to Napoleon, although he insisted it was correct, and suggested it was the kind of incident favored by Fletcher Pratt. The coincidence of confusing Nick Diamos name and references to Pratt suggest that this was your source as well. Perhaps you should do a bit more research, Private Wrong-fact.