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00:03:23 <Sukoshi> zbrown: Ah.
00:04:03 <zbrown> like I said before, I play when I can, but thats just 30 minutes at a time through the day
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00:21:14 <zbrown> Sukoshi: whats the plan for development, are we separating into various aspects to handle?
00:24:01 <Sukoshi> zbrown: Well, the first thing on the list is for everyone to finish reading the Kawa docs.
00:24:20 <Sukoshi> And also going through the Scheme examples, assuming you know Scheme.
00:42:15 <zbrown> mmm that should be fun, I don't know scheme
00:42:19 <zbrown> more langauges to learn!
00:42:40 <Sukoshi> Well, then go through the JavaScript example?
00:43:01 <Sukoshi> Basically, understand the way Kawa works.
00:43:14 <zbrown> ah ok
00:43:26 <zbrown> i don't know javascript, but i suppose I could understand it
00:43:29 <Sukoshi> By the way, RMS told GST project leader that he wanted a shift in focus.
00:43:37 <zbrown> oh?
00:43:40 <zbrown> in what way?
00:43:53 <Sukoshi> While GST focused on scripting/headless ST before, now he wants it to go the other direction and compete with Squeak and VW.
00:45:00 <zbrown> oh thats cool
00:45:51 <zbrown> well I'm focusing on GST
00:46:06 <zbrown> Its the only one I've been able to get consistent results out of
00:48:37 <Sukoshi> Only thing is the GUI is a bit on the cumbersome side.
00:50:51 <zbrown> Sukoshi: true. does kinda suck, but i'll figure it out
00:50:59 <zbrown> I can live with that, Squeak bugs the hell outta me
00:51:05 <Sukoshi> Heh.
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02:41:03 <fax> hi
02:41:21 <fax> any news on the smalltalk front? :p
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02:47:08 <Sukoshi> fax: Yo-z.
02:47:40 <Sukoshi> A) Get familliar with Smalltalk. B) Get familliar with Kawa (and read the Scheme implementation too). C) I wanna start maybe some time next week.
02:47:57 <fax> col
02:47:58 <fax> cool
02:48:04 <fax> Have you read much of Kawa?
02:48:13 <fax> because I was skimming it but I do not understand it at all @_@
02:48:18 <oklopol> err... is proving a system turing complete itself subject to the decision problem?
02:48:53 <oklopol> i'll ask oerjan when he comes, though you are all welcome to answer as well
02:49:26 <Sukoshi> It doesen't look too hard so far.
02:49:31 <Sukoshi> Well, anime time.
02:49:36 <Sukoshi> (More anime time, rather.)
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03:16:56 <GreaseMonkey> hello GregorR
03:17:31 <GregorR-L> Hello Gre-whatever.
03:18:14 * GreaseMonkey sculls a Diet Cherry Vanilla Orange Grape Lemon Lime Mint Roast Chicken Mayonnaise and Cola Dr. Pepper
03:18:37 <GregorR-L> Mmmmmmmmmm
03:18:57 <GregorR-L> It's the chicken that gives it that savory goodness.
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03:27:09 <oklokok> cherry also sounds good
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03:36:09 <GregorR-L> http://www.qdb.us/97533
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03:45:01 <GreaseMonkey> hehe, nice
03:47:39 <GreaseMonkey> http://www.qdb.us/97386
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06:30:53 <wooby> hi
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08:02:19 <GreaseMonkey> getting off now, cya
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10:00:28 <ttm> (this is dbc)
10:00:38 <ttm> (still dicking around with old brainfuck programs)
10:01:07 <ttm> (>>++++++[>++++++++<-]+[[>.[>]+<<[->-<<<]>[>+<<]>]>++<++])
10:04:44 <Sukoshi> !egobot >>++++++[>++++++++<-]+[[>.[>]+<<[->-<<<]>[>+<<]>]>++<++]
10:04:47 <EgoBot> Huh?
10:04:53 <Sukoshi> !bf >>++++++[>++++++++<-]+[[>.[>]+<<[->-<<<]>[>+<<]>]>++<++]
10:05:05 <Sukoshi> !ps
10:05:07 <EgoBot> 1 Sukoshi: bf
10:05:08 <EgoBot> 2 Sukoshi: ps
10:19:38 <ttm> It outputs a nonterminating sequence, maybe that's the problem.
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11:42:59 <Sukoshi> Heh.
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13:08:20 <ehird`> hmm... i wonder if a language that only operated on the program itself could be turing-complete
13:08:43 <ehird`> e.g. to read in an input string you'd change the part of the code defining a variable to include the characters read in, then jump there
13:09:18 <ehird`> and "jumping" is just modifying the program source code to be src+src
13:17:45 <ehird`> 2-dimensional of course
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15:17:25 <GregorR> ehird`: If the source is taken to be infinite and (outside the code itself) filled with zeroes, maybe.
15:17:48 <GregorR> ehird`: If the source limits the size of the memory, no (though it could be TC within the limits of bounded memory)
15:19:37 <RodgerTheGreat> this reminds me of the Dupdog hello world project
15:24:05 <RodgerTheGreat> I have serious doubts about that language's TC potential, although it has more to do with the difficulty of doing conditionals than the more apparent insanity
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16:11:46 <ehird`> GregorR, infinite, yes
16:12:08 <ehird`> commands like : for input would make the character right of themselves the ascii value of a character read in
16:12:16 <ehird`> so just : evaluates one command
16:13:59 <ehird`> hmm
16:14:03 <ehird`> maybe they should replace themselves
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16:30:38 <ehird`> Hmm. A 2d language like a game would be interesting. e.g. you can have little "cars" (>, <, v and ^) which move in that direction each cycle, and things like bouncers ((, ), -, _) which bounce the cars in the opposite direction
16:30:46 <ehird`> and special bouncers which run commands, or whatever
16:30:52 <ehird`> like a more specific Game of Life
16:31:32 <ehird`> e.g. with (> ) it'd progress into ( > ), then ( > ), then ( >), then bounce into ( <), ( < ), etc. infinitely
16:32:12 <ehird`> and you could have "planes" which carry objects, then you could make them crash into a special kind of bouncer to change its directions for conditionals, etc
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16:40:17 <oerjan> ehird`: have you looked at Rube?
16:40:30 <ehird`> yes - but it's not quite the same, relaly
16:41:31 <ihope> Look at BBM! :-)
16:47:17 <ehird`> BBM?
16:47:45 <oerjan> Big Bad Mamas?
16:48:09 <ehird`> (also, constructions such as this are interesting: (> B-) - B is a breeder which when hit with another object, covers itself with a clone of that for one cycle)
16:48:22 <ehird`> so, it'd infinitely shoot cars downwards
16:48:26 <ihope> Billiard ball model/machine.
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16:50:41 <ehird`> (More precisely, when an object collides with B, it bounces it in the opposite direction, and covers itself with a clone of the object for one cycle, going in the same direction as before it was bounced off B)
16:51:59 <ehird`> http://pastie.caboo.se/78346 one cycle of the breeder
16:52:48 <ehird`> (>B-) is faster, actually, and probably preferable
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17:04:10 <lament> Hail Eris!
17:18:51 <ehird`> Hmm. Is a language with only first-class continuations which take 1 argument turing complete?
17:18:55 <ehird`> I mean, it's close enough to LC..
17:19:16 <ehird`> hmm, Subtle cough
17:19:16 <lament> try it
17:19:23 <ehird`> which follows no
17:19:37 <lament> i don't think it would be TC
17:19:54 <lament> Just use unlambda with only the c operator and ` and see what you get
17:20:01 <ehird`> http://esolangs.org/wiki/Subtle_cough :)
17:20:39 <lament> ah, okay
17:20:42 <ihope> Cool. I invented something which somebody then later independently invented.
17:21:01 <ehird`> heh
17:21:40 <ehird`> i wonder. given subtle cough, what is the minimum you can add to it to make it turing complete?
17:21:49 <ehird`> without using anything silly like the iota combinator
17:22:15 <oerjan> well, i doesn't help.
17:22:32 <ehird`> i as in I or i as in iota
17:22:41 <ehird`> because iota obviously helps, seeing as that you only need ` and i
17:22:43 <oerjan> I
17:22:54 <ehird`> well - yeah, I is pretty useless here
17:23:01 <oerjan> `ci == `cc iirc
17:23:44 <ehird`> maybe k?
17:25:10 <oerjan> at least k gives you infinitely many values
17:25:52 <ehird`> i doubt v would be very helpful
17:26:06 <ehird`> but i think k might.
17:26:25 <oerjan> depends. it is only c which makes v useful in Unlambda.
17:26:32 <lament> is [[MechaniQue]] actually esoteric?
17:26:39 <ehird`> lament, the author of it says yes
17:26:45 <oerjan> (without continuations, v cannot be escaped from)
17:26:47 <ehird`> but its a bit shaky yeah
17:27:03 <ehird`> oerjan, we are talking about v := \x. v right?
17:27:11 <oerjan> right
17:27:18 <ehird`> well - subtle cough has c
17:27:31 <ehird`> so c + v == turing complete? it seems unlikely, but then so does iota == turing complete
17:28:10 <lament> the author says:
17:28:11 <lament> "It's also esoteric because the language abandons the concept of variables. Instead it uses a lock and key system which could be compared with a global-space inventory that holds booleans."
17:28:51 <oerjan> `vv == `vc == v == `vx for any x which actually returns to its continuation
17:29:10 <ehird`> what about `cv
17:29:15 <ihope> `cv = v
17:29:23 <ehird`> oh, yes... that is true =P
17:29:32 <ihope> For some x, `cv = `vx = v
17:29:51 <ehird`> OK, what about c + k? It doesn't sound TC to me
17:29:56 <lament> as far as i can tell, "locks" are simply boolean variables
17:30:08 <ehird`> lament, look at some of the example code.
17:30:17 <ihope> Or c + s!
17:30:32 <ehird`> Also http://esolangs.org/forum/kareha.pl/1148745423/l50
17:30:37 <oerjan> `ck returns k of the current continuation to the current continuation
17:31:13 <lament> oh man, forums
17:31:49 <lament> why are they so ugly :)
17:31:54 <oerjan> it's _rather_ slow for a forum :D
17:32:14 <ehird`> i like the forum
17:32:15 <lament> i think the forum is a bit redundant given the wiki
17:32:21 <lament> (and the channel)
17:32:23 <ehird`> i like anonymous forums
17:33:09 <lament> and yeah, the forums do seem a bit slow :)
17:33:34 <oerjan> i tend to check it once a month or so
17:37:30 <oerjan> ``cck -> `(`*k)k -> `kk
17:38:15 <ihope> Wait, lemme...
17:38:52 <ihope> 1:``cck -> 2:``c1k -> ``12k -> `2k -> `kk
17:39:58 <ehird`> S wouldn't help, so... hmm.. *would* S help..
17:40:26 <oerjan> ihope: i don't think your notation is precise enough
17:40:45 <oerjan> s + k is rather well known to help. :)
17:41:16 <ehird`> heh
17:41:26 <ehird`> i mean just c+s
17:41:59 <oerjan> even c+k is not proven. there may be a _lot_ of cases.
17:42:59 <ehird`> how about trying to convert the lambda expression in http://www.esolangs.org/wiki/S_and_K_Turing-completeness_proof to the languages? that would be a quick way to prove/disprove them
17:43:24 <ihope> I think my notation is plenty precise.
17:43:39 <ihope> Unlambda defines evaluation order.
17:43:49 <ihope> Hmm, 1:`c`kk -> ``kk1 -> k
17:44:00 <ihope> Try to make an infinite loop of any kind, eh?
17:44:07 <oerjan> `c``sss -> ```sss(*) -> ``s(*)`s(*)
17:44:26 <oerjan> um, ``cc`cc is an infinite loop
17:44:27 <ehird`> you can make an infinite loop with just ` and c, so.
17:44:30 <ehird`> heh.
17:45:03 <ihope> You can?
17:45:07 <ihope> Oh, that's...
17:46:13 <ihope> 1:``cc`cc -> 2:``c1`cc -> ``12`cc -> `2`cc -> 3:``cc`cc -> ...
17:48:07 <oerjan> s takes so many arguments it is easy to get stuck
17:48:16 <oerjan> (like with 0x29A)
17:48:48 <oerjan> (well, not _quite_ like it)
17:49:54 <ehird`> i think c + s has a chance of being TC
17:49:56 <ehird`> not sure though
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18:23:51 <lament> (some stuff moved to channel entry message)
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18:24:30 <oerjan> what about the ircbrowse logs?
18:24:45 <lament> see my previous comment.
18:25:12 <lament> You can actually find that link from the tunes.org link.
18:26:17 <lament> actually, how about this:
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18:26:51 <lament> shorter!
18:27:01 <oerjan> you removed the description. remember that the topic is what shows up in /list.
18:27:19 <lament> true.
18:27:23 <lament> does anybody still use /list?
18:27:53 <oerjan> i do occasionally, to check out channels others are on.
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18:28:49 <lament> forum and wiki can be combined into one URL.
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18:30:17 <oerjan> hm... the main page on esolangs.org is not exactly fashionable.
18:30:35 <lament> i like it much more than, say, the main page of the forums :)
18:30:54 <oerjan> it's as bad as my own homepage :/
18:31:02 <lament> bad?
18:31:09 <lament> how is it bad?
18:31:17 <oerjan> ah, just boring
18:31:33 <oerjan> (in design)
18:31:40 <oerjan> not really having any
18:32:04 <lament> we could ask graue to put a flash intro there.
18:32:17 <oerjan> ok maybe not _that_ far :D
18:32:42 <lament> personally i think that page is an example of what's known as "good design"
18:33:18 <lament> also, do we need a link to the pastebin?
18:33:34 <lament> people put in in the url in programming-related channels because of flooding
18:33:38 <lament> i don't think we ever had that problem
18:33:52 <lament> and most people know where the pastebins are
18:34:32 <lament> and it's not an esoteric-specific link....
18:34:48 <lament> maybe we just need an #esoteric page
18:35:11 <oerjan> what is this obsession with getting the topic short anyhow?
18:35:22 <lament> it's too long.
18:36:00 <lament> i know a good place for an #esoteric page... the wiki!
18:36:18 <lament> it seems that the wiki does not have a page about the channel... seems on-topic enough
18:36:53 <oerjan> it's under the community page i guess
18:37:58 <lament> right, which is almost impossible to find, and meant for editors.
18:38:22 <lament> or so it seems.
18:38:33 <oerjan> impossible? it's the second link in the menu.
18:38:53 <lament> oh, so it is, didn't notice :)
18:39:05 <lament> (see!)
18:39:11 <oerjan> bah! :D
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18:39:37 <ehird`> i shortened the topic for you
18:39:50 <lament> thanks. I wasn't brave enough to do that.
18:39:51 <ehird`> my compression algorithm is unbeatable
18:40:11 <ehird`> it is very easy to implement: just replace all occurences of . with Esoteric programming language design and deployment | FORUM AND WIKI: http://esolangs.org/ | LOGS: http://ircbrowse.com/ | PASTEBIN: http://pastebin.ca/
18:41:02 <lament> i can beat it!
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18:41:31 <lament> Just replace all occurances of "" with "." and then apply ehird`s algorithm.
18:41:33 <ehird`> um, how do i create a negative-length string? anyone?
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18:41:40 <ehird`> hah!
18:41:42 <ehird`> i removed the single space!
18:42:08 <lament> you win.
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18:59:07 <ehird`> Why doesn't DoubleFuck have an instruction to interact between the two tapes?
19:03:17 <oerjan> it has loops for both. and in ordinary Brainfuck, you need loops to copy between two cells.
19:04:12 <ehird`> true, but still
19:05:47 -!- lament has set topic: добро пожаловать в канал эзотерического программирования!.
19:05:51 <ehird`> I wonder if anyone's taken malebolge's modulo-commands to the next level to produce something like (character + some value of a register, or something like that + position in program) % (some other program-related thing)
19:06:07 <ehird`> i.e. "AB" will not work the same as "A" followed by "B" as the meanings will change
19:06:17 <ehird`> something along those lines
19:06:53 <lament> check out [[Aura]]
19:08:24 <ehird`> Aura just does mod 8?
19:08:45 <ehird`> I mean, the way characters are turned into instructions depends on the position in the program, different register values, stuff like that
19:09:14 <ehird`> so if you write instructions "A" and "B" and you want to execute A then B, you can't do "AB" since the algorithm will have changed (in a predictable way, of course - no random numbers)
19:09:44 <lament> well, in aura you can't execute AB because A will modify B.
19:09:53 <ehird`> that's not the same, though.
19:10:06 <ehird`> "AB" will still be perfectly valid code, it'd just do something different because the translation would be different
19:10:48 <lament> fine then, check out Dupdog.
19:13:02 <ehird`> that's kinda similar, yeah
19:13:16 <ehird`> more malebolge-extending madness: instead of base-3, base-i
19:23:50 <ehird`> maybe: ins = ((chr + pos) * len(code)) % number-of-instructions
19:28:12 <ehird`> http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-malbolge-995.html the last comment here makes me weep
19:29:28 <oerjan> find some comfort in that the Java prints the wrong text :D
19:29:34 <lament> ehird`: don't forget phase of the moon.
19:30:10 <ehird`> lament, should i make the interpreter refuse to run any code on full moon?
19:31:07 <lament> no, just make phase of the moon one of the things affecting the semantics of the instructions
19:32:11 <ehird`> what about unix timestamp
19:32:39 <oerjan> see TMMLPTEALPAITAFNFAL
19:32:50 <lament> right, exists
19:33:32 <ehird`> i mean on top of evertything else.
19:46:40 <ehird`> i think i have devised an operation crazier than the crazy operation
19:46:44 <ehird`> using base-4
19:47:49 <ehird`> it almost looks like a random number generator. 332101 op 133112 = 31323
19:48:32 <lament> is that your evidence for it "looking like a random number generator"?
19:50:08 <ehird`> no -- but it produces equally absurd transformations on other numbers
19:51:32 <lament> so what's 1 op 1?
19:52:27 <ehird`> 3
19:52:57 <lament> and 1 op 0? 0 op 1? 0 op 0?
19:53:15 <ehird`> 1 op 0 = 2, x op y is always y op x, 0 op 0 is 3.
19:54:10 <lament> frankly that doesn't seem all that absurd.
19:54:26 <oerjan> since it sounds rather close to a generalization of SAT.
19:54:36 <oerjan> (wrong channel)
19:54:54 <ehird`> more absurd than crazy
19:54:56 <oerjan> although that fit in here as well :D
19:56:50 <oerjan> honestly, there are just 16 numbers, why not list the matrix?
19:57:37 <lament> 8
19:58:04 <oerjan> 4*4 = 16
19:58:26 <ehird`> op = Z for brevity. 0 Z 0 = 3, 0 Z 1 = 2, 0 Z 2 = 1, 0 Z 3 = 0, 1 Z 1 = 3, 1 Z 2 = 3, 1 Z 3 = 0, 2 Z 2 = 2, 2 Z 3 = 1, 3 Z 3 = 3
19:58:41 <lament> oerjan: commutative
19:58:50 <lament> er, wait
19:58:55 <lament> er, right.
19:59:34 <oerjan> oh, i did not see the commutativity
20:00:01 <lament> anyway, how's that interesitng in any way?
20:00:07 <oerjan> then it's 10
20:00:11 <lament> (any way, how's that interesting in anyway?)
20:00:14 <ehird`> lament, how's it not interesting in any way?
20:01:08 <lament> it looks... rather arbitrary.
20:01:39 <ehird`> And crzy isn't arbitary?
20:02:24 <lament> not any kind of _interesting_ crazy.
20:02:31 <ehird`> I mean the crazy operation
20:02:33 <ehird`> Malbolge's.
20:03:00 <ehird`> 0 C 0 = 1, 0 C 1 = 0, 0 C 2 = 0, 1 C 0 = 1, 1 C 1 = 0, 1 C 2 = 2, 2 C 0 = 2, 2 C 1 = 2, 2 C 2 = 2
20:03:02 <ehird`> is very arbitary
20:03:13 <lament> sure. That one's not interesting either.
20:03:33 <oerjan> it does however have some properties that makes it hard to use.
20:04:19 <ehird`> oerjan, so does Z
20:04:39 <lament> oerjan: properties that a randomly filled matrix is not likely to have?
20:04:51 <oerjan> lament: i don't know.
20:05:28 <lament> also, that one isn't commutative, which is probably rather important
20:05:33 <oerjan> i _do_ notice however that (x Z 0) Z 0 = x, which means it is already more convenient than malbolge's operator
20:06:01 <lament> heh
20:06:02 <ehird`> hey, you're right
20:06:03 <ehird`> hmm
20:06:06 <ehird`> i didn't notice that, hah
20:09:05 <oerjan> for Malbolge you have ((x op 1) op 1) op 1 = x, so it is harder to get back the original value
20:09:22 <oerjan> er wait
20:09:59 <oerjan> misread, they are not that different, (x op 1) op 1 = x
20:10:11 <ehird`> heh
20:10:48 <oerjan> er, 1 op (1 op x)
20:11:43 <oerjan> however, for both only one value gives a permutation
20:13:47 <oerjan> ah, with your operator you cannot get 1 or 2 from starting with just 0
20:14:21 <oerjan> that might actually be _very_ awkward.
20:15:14 <oerjan> well, maybe not.
20:15:17 <ehird`> Is that a compliment? =)_
20:15:21 <oerjan> of course.
20:16:28 <oerjan> however, having an extra digit does increase the risk that some more easily useful combination may arise.
20:17:59 <ehird`> maybe it'd be more interesting in base i
20:18:09 <ehird`> hmm: http://acm.uva.es/p/v111/11180.html
20:18:23 <ehird`> that looks like a nicely insane base
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21:11:32 <lament> 0Z0=3, 0Z3=0, 3Z3=3
21:11:58 <lament> that is, Z acting on {0,3} is XOR
21:12:21 <lament> that seems... useful :)
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22:25:47 <SimonRC> http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/mac.h.html <-- Ouch.
22:27:06 <bsmntbombdood> haha
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22:39:15 <ehird`> what the hell, haha
22:39:18 <ehird`> what's that for
22:39:26 <ehird`> wait -- was that actually THE unix shell?
22:39:33 <SimonRC> yup
22:39:34 <ehird`> like, it just compiled C with those macros?
22:39:40 <SimonRC> yes
22:39:50 <ehird`> http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/ i think you're wrong
22:40:03 <SimonRC> There was no suc thing as an experienced C programmer back then.
22:40:18 <ehird`> http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/main.c.html look, the sh code just uses those macros
22:40:24 <ehird`> that isn't actually the unix shell =)
22:40:30 <SimonRC> ehird`: erm, yeah, that's what I meant
22:40:33 <ehird`> oh
22:40:42 <ehird`> i thought you meant that the shell just wrapped around cc using that header. heh
22:40:48 <ehird`> but - wtf, what is the point of thst
22:40:54 <ehird`> probably algol programmers...
22:41:03 <SimonRC> "There was no suc thing as an experienced C programmer back then."
22:41:14 <ehird`> yeah but these guys >invented< C, for christ's sake
22:41:18 <ehird`> why would they hack around its syntax?
22:49:40 <SimonRC> That was K&R, not Bourne.
22:49:55 <ehird`> ah, true.
22:50:24 <SimonRC> TBH they all just merge into one bearded figure in my head.
22:50:32 <SimonRC> As well as Ken Thompson.
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23:53:27 <bsmntbombdood> it burns
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