Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Jun 1 11:23:58 CDT 2010
I think Prologue would have put you in a class of 1%... The last time I played with Prologue, I had a Commadore64 and two 1541 floppy drives. As for schema which I also know nothing about; I posted an article which included Schema, which I will assume is a good description, about what Schema is and does: http://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/#scheme When I ever retire, I fully plan to waste a lot of time digging into the some of the esiteric languages... but I am seriously planning on moving ahead with the Cassandra Project. The only thing that is holding me back is time and money... "minor details" but my son-in-law is finally coming to Canada and should be here shortly after the end of July and in addition I have been approached by a good friend, a business expert, on whether I wish to go in with him on a grand business deal... so who knows it may all come together yet... Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 8:30 AM To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Are not uber Geeks an inspiration to us all? Hi Jim Oh my, isn't that a geek. I would never have thought of writing an interpreter myself and have no idea of what Scheme is. But he mentions Lisp which I have only played with but find fascinating - which reminds me of Prolog which is so different and probably would have put me in some other corner of that class - with less than 10% raising our hands I guess! Could be fun to read it up again - to be realistic, that would not be before I retire ... /gustav >>> accessd at shaw.ca 01-06-2010 17:09 >>> Here is an interesting story from an uber geek. In the following link he explains how he hacked together a 200 line interpreter in an evening... Boggles the mind it does. http://rpal.sourceforge.net/oneday.html Jim _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com