From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: language translator help Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:18:23 -0700 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: ttn@glug.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023737100 30849 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2002 19:25:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:25:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17HUmh-00081F-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:24:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HUlo-0005aE-00; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:24:04 -0400 Original-Received: from ca-crlsbd-u5-c4a-a-172.crlsca.adelphia.net ([24.48.214.172] helo=giblet) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HUkH-0005St-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 15:22:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by giblet with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17HUgJ-0002Pb-00; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:18:23 -0700 Original-To: markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk In-Reply-To: (message from0MJ Ray on Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:31:31 GMT) Errors-To: guile-user-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:579 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:579 From: MJ Ray Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:31:31 GMT No, I'd find someone who was there. You're the only person in this case who I can be sure was there, but you don't want to provide data. if you are looking for public data look in public archives, which do not need to be provided by me -- they are there for review. Therefore, there is little possibility to gather data on this event and we are left working from prior beliefs. My prior belief is that the events probably did not occur. Am I a good Bayesian? Probably not. "there is little possibility" means "i have asked someone else to think for me but they don't want to so i'm giving up". too bad. the possibility for you to reach some well-informed conclusion is always there, but the probability is directly proportional to your personal effort. the alternative is that you hold to "i didn't see FOO so FOO didn't happen" which means you don't believe in your own birth (unless you were born w/ your eyes open :-). There's a reply to that, but it's not polite. someday you'll be old and impatient like me and view certain forms of politeness w/ disdain, but i understand if that's not the case now. librarians have even more fun than pizza deliverators, i suspect (on the other hand, shared-object librarians have a hell of a job :-). State the opinions before acting upon them, but I can't find that that has occurred. people have opinions, but programmers have opinions expressed in code. so before we get to far, this course of action that you have embarked upon (researching 1.4.2 motivations), what is your underlying opinion? Do interfaces change? ie, Do returns change for the same calls? Are new calls introduced? Are calls removed? good questions -- so now you've posited some system of judgement, could you apply this to code, specifically the tuples {guile, some-app} over the set of versions available? if you prefer to avoid the abstract, choose some actual app that you find interesting or useful (that uses guile). A genetic algorithm, most likely ;-) what is the fitness function? thi _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user