* Happy Anniversary!
@ 1997-12-10 23:02 Jason R Mastaler
1997-12-11 14:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Jason R Mastaler @ 1997-12-10 23:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Wow, three action packed years.
Sun Dec 11 06:32:40 1994 Lars Ingebrigtsen <lars@eyesore.no>
* gnus.el: The very first (ding) Gnus pre-release.
Thanks for all the fun Lars!
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* Re: Happy Anniversary!
1997-12-10 23:02 Happy Anniversary! Jason R Mastaler
@ 1997-12-11 14:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-12-11 18:51 ` Wes Hardaker
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1997-12-11 14:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
Jason R Mastaler <jason@mastaler.com> writes:
> Wow, three action packed years.
>
> Sun Dec 11 06:32:40 1994 Lars Ingebrigtsen <lars@eyesore.no>
>
> * gnus.el: The very first (ding) Gnus pre-release.
>
> Thanks for all the fun Lars!
Wow! I had completely forgotten the anniversary.
Thanks!
(Apropos of absolutely nothing -- I've just written ~3500 lines of Tcl
code. And I enjoyed it! Someone please shoot me before I start
writing, uh, Java or something. Or C++! Eek!)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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* Re: Happy Anniversary!
1997-12-11 14:31 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 1997-12-11 18:51 ` Wes Hardaker
1997-12-11 19:23 ` Gisle Aas
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From: Wes Hardaker @ 1997-12-11 18:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
>>>>> On 11 Dec 1997 15:31:22 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:
Lars> (Apropos of absolutely nothing -- I've just written ~3500 lines
Lars> of Tcl code. And I enjoyed it! Someone please shoot me before
Lars> I start writing, uh, Java or something. Or C++! Eek!)
Or perl even ;-)
--
"Ninjas aren't dangerous. They're more afraid of you than you are of them."
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* Re: Happy Anniversary!
1997-12-11 18:51 ` Wes Hardaker
@ 1997-12-11 19:23 ` Gisle Aas
1997-12-11 19:28 ` Wes Hardaker
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From: Gisle Aas @ 1997-12-11 19:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, ding
Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:
> >>>>> On 11 Dec 1997 15:31:22 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:
>
> Lars> (Apropos of absolutely nothing -- I've just written ~3500 lines
> Lars> of Tcl code. And I enjoyed it! Someone please shoot me before
> Lars> I start writing, uh, Java or something. Or C++! Eek!)
>
> Or perl even ;-)
and I have already started on the Gnus rewrite in Perl. Do you think
Lars would enjoy completing it? I think there are only ~35000 lines
missing :-)
$ perl -MGnus::Newsrc -le 'print Gnus::Newsrc->new->alist_hash->{"nnml:gnus"}[2]{expire}'
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* Re: Happy Anniversary!
1997-12-11 19:23 ` Gisle Aas
@ 1997-12-11 19:28 ` Wes Hardaker
1997-12-11 19:49 ` Bruce Stephens
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From: Wes Hardaker @ 1997-12-11 19:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: Wes Hardaker, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, ding
>>>>> On 11 Dec 1997 20:23:01 +0100, Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> said:
Gisle> and I have already started on the Gnus rewrite in Perl. Do you
Gisle> think Lars would enjoy completing it? I think there are only
Gisle> ~35000 lines missing :-)
I think we should keep *both* versions (plus Lars' new ones in Java
and Tcl), and just make sure they are in sync.
The should all read the appropriate ~/.newsrc.{eld,tcld,pld,javad},
which ever one has been modified the latest.
--
"Ninjas aren't dangerous. They're more afraid of you than you are of them."
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* Re: Happy Anniversary!
1997-12-11 19:28 ` Wes Hardaker
@ 1997-12-11 19:49 ` Bruce Stephens
1997-12-11 21:43 ` Wes Hardaker
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From: Bruce Stephens @ 1997-12-11 19:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu said:
> I think we should keep *both* versions (plus Lars' new ones in Java
> and Tcl), and just make sure they are in sync.
> The should all read the appropriate ~/.newsrc.{eld,tcld,pld,javad},
> which ever one has been modified the latest.
Absolutely. That might be a bit too much work, though. Perhaps a couple of
languages could be dropped in favour of a version for POSIX-compliant shells?
There are few UNIX machines without some Bourne shell, and it would be very
useful to have a fully programmable threading newsreader available as soon as
you have a working /bin/sh.
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* Re: Happy Anniversary!
1997-12-11 19:49 ` Bruce Stephens
@ 1997-12-11 21:43 ` Wes Hardaker
1997-12-12 11:52 ` Lars Syrstad
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From: Wes Hardaker @ 1997-12-11 21:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
>>>>> On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:49:14 +0000, Bruce Stephens <bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk> said:
Bruce> There are few UNIX machines without some Bourne shell, and it
Bruce> would be very useful to have a fully programmable threading
Bruce> newsreader available as soon as you have a working /bin/sh.
True... That and a dos .bat file set should cover just about everything!
It would take way too long to get a elisp version up and running,
having to set emacs up and all... We should limit it to just those two.
--
"Ninjas aren't dangerous. They're more afraid of you than you are of them."
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* Re: Happy Anniversary!
1997-12-11 21:43 ` Wes Hardaker
@ 1997-12-12 11:52 ` Lars Syrstad
1997-12-12 17:03 ` Wes Hardaker
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From: Lars Syrstad @ 1997-12-12 11:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:
> >>>>> On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:49:14 +0000, Bruce Stephens <bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk> said:
>
> Bruce> There are few UNIX machines without some Bourne shell, and it
> Bruce> would be very useful to have a fully programmable threading
> Bruce> newsreader available as soon as you have a working /bin/sh.
>
> True... That and a dos .bat file set should cover just about everything!
> It would take way too long to get a elisp version up and running,
> having to set emacs up and all... We should limit it to just those two.
I think that instead of spending effort on porting Gnus itself to
those languages/environments, one should focus on writing a few
simple, generic, all-purpose tools. Like
elisp2tcl
elisp2perl
elisp2bin-sh
elisp2msdos-batch
etc.
I believe such a tool should be written in COBOL, for the sake of
completeness.
- Lars.
--
Not flogging a DOA MULE.
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* Re: Happy Anniversary!
1997-12-12 11:52 ` Lars Syrstad
@ 1997-12-12 17:03 ` Wes Hardaker
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From: Wes Hardaker @ 1997-12-12 17:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
>>>>> On 12 Dec 1997 12:52:21 +0100, Lars Syrstad <lars@tihlde.hist.no> said:
Lars> I believe such a tool should be written in COBOL, for the sake
Lars> of completeness.
Actually, I think we should start refering to Gnus as its own
language. It really has become a super-set of elisp.
Gnus: A newsreader written in the Gnus language.
(talk about the chicken and egg problem)
--
"Ninjas aren't dangerous. They're more afraid of you than you are of them."
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