Comments for Blue Sky On Mars http://www.blueskyonmars.com Kevin Dangoor on Technology, Business and Everything Fri, 16 May 2008 13:19:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Programming language warts: Newspeak by Ian Bicking http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/05/09/programming-language-warts-newspeak/#comment-208750 Ian Bicking Tue, 13 May 2008 02:25:44 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/05/09/programming-language-warts-newspeak/#comment-208750 Hmm... in Smalltalk ^ isn't used for lambda returns. Or... there's no lambda, but there are blocks in Smalltalk, but a block evaluates as its last expression, and ^ does a return of the enclosing method definition. Hmm… in Smalltalk ^ isn’t used for lambda returns. Or… there’s no lambda, but there are blocks in Smalltalk, but a block evaluates as its last expression, and ^ does a return of the enclosing method definition.

]]> Comment on Programming language warts: Newspeak by Kevin Dangoor http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/05/09/programming-language-warts-newspeak/#comment-208749 Kevin Dangoor Mon, 12 May 2008 14:48:07 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/05/09/programming-language-warts-newspeak/#comment-208749 And, truth be told, that was the context in which they showed a ^. I still generally prefer things to not be too terse, because too many random characters just looks like line noise (ie is bad for readability, which is important). I don't know if Newspeak also offers 'return' for longer functions. And, truth be told, that was the context in which they showed a ^. I still generally prefer things to not be too terse, because too many random characters just looks like line noise (ie is bad for readability, which is important).

I don’t know if Newspeak also offers ‘return’ for longer functions.

]]> Comment on Programming language warts: Newspeak by sky http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/05/09/programming-language-warts-newspeak/#comment-208748 sky Mon, 12 May 2008 14:34:10 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/05/09/programming-language-warts-newspeak/#comment-208748 I can imagine a short '^' being better for lambdas and other short functions that benefit from concise expression. I can imagine a short ‘^’ being better for lambdas and other short functions that benefit from concise expression.

]]> Comment on Programming language warts: Newspeak by Kevin Dangoor http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/05/09/programming-language-warts-newspeak/#comment-208744 Kevin Dangoor Mon, 12 May 2008 02:19:31 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/05/09/programming-language-warts-newspeak/#comment-208744 Aha! OK. For a language like Newspeak, that's a reasonable precedent to go by, since Smalltalk is clearly an inspiration for them. It does still strike me as odd, though, that they would opt for ^ rather than return while acknowledging that return is more commonly accepted. Thanks for clearing that up. Smalltalk is one language that I haven't looked too deeply at. Aha! OK. For a language like Newspeak, that’s a reasonable precedent to go by, since Smalltalk is clearly an inspiration for them. It does still strike me as odd, though, that they would opt for ^ rather than return while acknowledging that return is more commonly accepted.

Thanks for clearing that up. Smalltalk is one language that I haven’t looked too deeply at.

]]> Comment on Camtasia for the Mac by Seattle Prof http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/01/30/camtasia-for-the-mac/#comment-208739 Seattle Prof Sun, 11 May 2008 23:37:14 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/01/30/camtasia-for-the-mac/#comment-208739 Hello Troy, How will Camtasia for the Mac compare to ScreenFlow? Any estimate of beta or shipping dates? Thanks. Hello Troy,

How will Camtasia for the Mac compare to ScreenFlow? Any estimate of beta or shipping dates? Thanks.

]]> Comment on Camtasia for the Mac by Michael http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/01/30/camtasia-for-the-mac/#comment-208735 Michael Sun, 11 May 2008 15:46:37 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2006/01/30/camtasia-for-the-mac/#comment-208735 Interested in testing beta version of MAC compatible Camtasia. As long as it doesn't wipe my hard drive :) Interested in testing beta version of MAC compatible Camtasia. As long as it doesn’t wipe my hard drive :)

]]> Comment on Programming language warts: Newspeak by Ian Bicking http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/05/09/programming-language-warts-newspeak/#comment-208727 Ian Bicking Sat, 10 May 2008 14:10:46 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/05/09/programming-language-warts-newspeak/#comment-208727 It comes from Smalltalk, which also uses ^ as return (and was traditionally rendered as an up-arrow). At least they don't use _ for assignment ;) (That was traditionally rendered as a left-pointing arrow) It comes from Smalltalk, which also uses ^ as return (and was traditionally rendered as an up-arrow). At least they don’t use _ for assignment ;) (That was traditionally rendered as a left-pointing arrow)

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]]> Comment on I love my new Apple keyboard by bob kuehne http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/05/09/i-love-my-new-apple-keyboard/#comment-208712 bob kuehne Fri, 09 May 2008 12:39:21 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/05/09/i-love-my-new-apple-keyboard/#comment-208712 hi kevin, after living on my laptop for the better part of the last 4 years, when i recently got one of the shiny new mac pros, i upgraded to the bluetooth keyboard. it's got all the same good feel as the usb kbd, and the laptops, for that matter, but with wirelesss (obviously). i'm amazed at the battery life. i use this thing 8-10 hours a day, nearly every day. 4 months in, it's still 80% battery-ified. great keyboard. b hi kevin,

after living on my laptop for the better part of the last 4 years, when i recently got one of the shiny new mac pros, i upgraded to the bluetooth keyboard. it’s got all the same good feel as the usb kbd, and the laptops, for that matter, but with wirelesss (obviously). i’m amazed at the battery life. i use this thing 8-10 hours a day, nearly every day. 4 months in, it’s still 80% battery-ified. great keyboard.

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]]> Comment on Paver 0.7: Better than distutils, better docs and much more by Kevin Dangoor http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/05/07/paver-07-better-than-distutils-better-docs-and-much-more/#comment-208711 Kevin Dangoor Fri, 09 May 2008 10:40:29 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2008/05/07/paver-07-better-than-distutils-better-docs-and-much-more/#comment-208711 The short answer is that you can do anything by using the sh() function. That's how I currently pull some things out of svn (I don't much like externals, so I manually control an svn checkout/update) The longer answer requires context. Are you just saying that in some random task you want to pull things from a repository? easy_install can pull from a repository (svn on its own, and I believe bzr if you have a plugin for it) The short answer is that you can do anything by using the sh() function. That’s how I currently pull some things out of svn (I don’t much like externals, so I manually control an svn checkout/update)

The longer answer requires context. Are you just saying that in some random task you want to pull things from a repository? easy_install can pull from a repository (svn on its own, and I believe bzr if you have a plugin for it)

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