Re: Broken dream of mine :(

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Donnerstag, 17. September 2009 08:37:51 schrieb arnuld uttre:
> > And I hope my monthly news on the website can help show people what
> > happens.
> 
> There is a problem with hope. Hope itself doe not so anything. Only
> Hard-World does.

-start nitpicking-
Correction: Only *work* does. It need not be hard work, as it can also be fun 
:) 

When many more people should join to have fun hacking on the Hurd, that should 
equal fewer people working really hard (and might even archieve more, since 
having fun is a very efficient way of working). 

The work I do with the news is not *hard* work, since it is also fun to me, 
but it is work nontheless (and I hope it helps the Hurd, for example by 
getting more people join in having fun hacking on the Hurd :) ). 

-stop nitpicking-

;) 

> > Since the Hurd has bindings for using common Lisp for translators, you
> > can in fact use Lisp to write part of an OS (the attached snapshot is the
> > version from Tue Sep 16 15:50:43 2008 - I had a disk failure which ate a
> > part of the repositories history; I already asked Flavio if he still has
> > an intact clone lying around).
> 
> If that is technically efficient, I will happily go with this :)

I didn't yet try it (since I can't program in Lisp), but the example 
translators look like it's quite useful (I didn't yet test them): 

- tmpfs: http://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/cl-hurd/src/tip/examples/tmp-
translator.lisp
- zip: http://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/cl-hurd/src/tip/zip-translator/zip-
translator.lisp
- irc: http://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/cl-hurd/src/tip/irc-translator/irc-
translator.lisp

Along with namespace based translator selection, We should now be able to do 
things like this (might require smaller modification, since I didn't test 
this): 

$ ls blah.zip,,unzip.lisp

:)

If you test them, please tell me the results! 

Best wishes, 
Arne

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Unpolitisch sein
heißt politisch sein, 
ohne es zu merken. 
- Arne (http://draketo.de)
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