Having read all of the After Y2K strips, I feel it couldn't possibly be the work of a woman. I have known many women geeks, but none of them could write stories with that kind of depth and tech humor. I don't want to sound sexist or stereotypical, however, it's just a feeling
Let's see: You're making a generalization of the incapacity of women to be depthfully creative or have technical knowledge from only the 'women geeks' you know. It is (lamentably) a fact that there are typically fewer women than men in a technical/'geek' cultures, so I can reasonably guess that all the 'women geeks' you know isn't necessarily a terribly large group -- at least not large enough to make even a worthwhile statistical claim about the ability of women in general, and certainly not enough to back up the assertion that AY2K 'couldn't possibly be the work of a woman'.
Your expressed view is not 'just a feeling', and does not merely sound 'sexist or stereotypical', it is a stereotype, it is unfair, and it is based on wholly incorrect reasoning.
That being said, AY2K rocks, and continues to get better the more I read it. Keep up the good work, Nitrozac.
Regardless even of the language's current 'technical merits or pitfalls' its long-term development is doomed to be constrained to its owner's conception of how the language should be designed, so long as it is owned by an individual. Perl's success comes from designing directly based on the needs of the community, and even owes its existence directly to solving a particular need. Its openness leads even to multiple options of how to interface guts (reasonably well-documents) to arbitrary C, meaning hordes and hordes of useful, free, open modules. Which implement the same sort of thing as REBOL's touted web-fetch-in-one-line and server-in-seven-lines examples. So in short, I don't happen to see REBOL as solving any of my problems any more effeciently than C and/or Perl and/or Scheme and/or any other existing language. And considering there is no source available to enable understanding and potentially modifying every detail of the language from the ground up, I find little reason for optimism concerning the language's usefulness in the future.
> emailed Rebol last fall and asked if it would be > available for the PalmPilot. Within a day they > emailed me and said that they > would investigate. It's now atleast > listed as pending on the site Oh, they're investigating. Good. But if you had the source, you could do it yourself, or find someone to do it a hell of a lot faster than that, now couldn't you?
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And where + means concatenation or addition.
Gah.
Also Dave Brubeck, Ben Folds Five, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Bach, random other jazz...
---Jason
Let's see: You're making a generalization of the incapacity of women to be depthfully creative or have technical knowledge from only the 'women geeks' you know. It is (lamentably) a fact that there are typically fewer women than men in a technical/'geek' cultures, so I can reasonably guess that all the 'women geeks' you know isn't necessarily a terribly large group -- at least not large enough to make even a worthwhile statistical claim about the ability of women in general, and certainly not enough to back up the assertion that AY2K 'couldn't possibly be the work of a woman'.
Your expressed view is not 'just a feeling', and does not merely sound 'sexist or stereotypical', it is a stereotype, it is unfair, and it is based on wholly incorrect reasoning.
That being said, AY2K rocks, and continues to get better the more I read it. Keep up the good work, Nitrozac.
---Jason
Ask me if I'm a truck.
:)
(Hi, Dee
Heh. At CMU, 'rtfm' is a command which,
roughly, is to 'man' as 'less' is to 'more'.
---Jason
> sceptic tank? As opposed to a trusting one?
I doubt it.
*duck*
---Jason
Sigh.
Free != Gratis.
The FSF itself sells free software.
RTFEssays on www.gnu.org.
(Probably a troll, anyway.)
---Jason
Try www.god.org, www.god.net, and www.god.ca. They all exist, and I'm sure there's others....
---Jason
Well, actually, "you got mail" sounds perfectly grammatical to my ear --- though past tense.
"You got mail yesterday"
"You have mail now"
---Jason
Regardless even of the language's current 'technical merits or pitfalls' its long-term development is doomed to be constrained to its owner's conception of how the language should be designed, so long as it is owned by an individual.
Perl's success comes from designing directly based on the needs of the community, and even owes its existence directly to solving a particular need. Its openness leads even to multiple options of how to interface guts (reasonably well-documents) to arbitrary C, meaning hordes and hordes of useful, free, open modules. Which implement the same sort of thing as REBOL's touted web-fetch-in-one-line and server-in-seven-lines examples.
So in short, I don't happen to see REBOL as solving any of my problems any more effeciently than C and/or Perl and/or Scheme and/or any other existing language. And considering there is no source available to enable understanding and potentially modifying every detail of the language from the ground up, I find little reason for optimism concerning the language's usefulness in the future.
> emailed Rebol last fall and asked if it would be > available for the PalmPilot. Within a day they
> emailed me and said that they
> would investigate. It's now atleast
> listed as pending on the site
Oh, they're investigating. Good.
But if you had the source, you could do
it yourself, or find someone to do it a hell
of a lot faster than that, now couldn't you?
- godel
Are there any companies besides VA shipping them with some linux preinstalled? Somewhere in to $1500-$2500 range?