Comments for Mad Computer Scientist http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog IT Professional by day, mad computer scientist by night Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:26:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Typographical Beauty in Programming Languages by Michael http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/2009/02/25/typographical-beauty-in-programming-languages/comment-page-1/#comment-16278 Michael Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:26:05 +0000 http://mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/?p=131#comment-16278 Unfortunately, I've never gotten around to building my toy language. I'll have to draw up some notes on it soon. The best examples of what I'm thinking of are, oddly enough, Donald Knuth's original WEB system, which did a lot of fancy typesetting on the code to make it look more formal and mathematical, and what I've seen of the Fortress language that Guy Steele is working on (which boasts a parser that handles either plain old ASCII or a more sophisticated, Unicode syntax). Another interesting thought would be how to make Lisp code more beautiful, from a typesetting perspective. Unfortunately, I’ve never gotten around to building my toy language. I’ll have to draw up some notes on it soon. The best examples of what I’m thinking of are, oddly enough, Donald Knuth’s original WEB system, which did a lot of fancy typesetting on the code to make it look more formal and mathematical, and what I’ve seen of the Fortress language that Guy Steele is working on (which boasts a parser that handles either plain old ASCII or a more sophisticated, Unicode syntax).

Another interesting thought would be how to make Lisp code more beautiful, from a typesetting perspective.

]]> Comment on Typographical Beauty in Programming Languages by Fletcher Tomalty http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/2009/02/25/typographical-beauty-in-programming-languages/comment-page-1/#comment-15181 Fletcher Tomalty Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:53:59 +0000 http://mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/?p=131#comment-15181 Hi there, I was just thinking this and so I found you searching Google. It would be so great to have real multiplication and division signs, real superscripts and subscripts, etc. I hate being so limited by plain text, and worse -- ASCII. What is your toy language like? Is there anywhere I can see it? Cheers, Fletcher Hi there,

I was just thinking this and so I found you searching Google. It would be so great to have real multiplication and division signs, real superscripts and subscripts, etc. I hate being so limited by plain text, and worse — ASCII.

What is your toy language like? Is there anywhere I can see it?

Cheers,
Fletcher

]]> Comment on Image Based Approaches for reading PDFs on the Nook by Michael http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/2010/12/08/image-based-approaches-for-reading-pdfs-on-the-nook/comment-page-1/#comment-4605 Michael Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:49:26 +0000 http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/?p=589#comment-4605 I converted another book just yesterday and noticed no difference in the margins between Adobe Reader and the nook. Again, if I can help with a test case or anything, just let me know. I converted another book just yesterday and noticed no difference in the margins between Adobe Reader and the nook. Again, if I can help with a test case or anything, just let me know.

]]> Comment on Image Based Approaches for reading PDFs on the Nook by Gerhard http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/2010/12/08/image-based-approaches-for-reading-pdfs-on-the-nook/comment-page-1/#comment-3843 Gerhard Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:23:11 +0000 http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/?p=589#comment-3843 Hi! I'm the author of Briss and since someone recently told me about problems with unnecessary margins on the nook with briss-cropped pdfs I'd like to ask for your expertise. If you crop a pdf with Briss and load it on the nook: Is there a difference between the visualization on the nook concerning margins and a normal pdf viewer(Acrobat or whatever)? It would be really great to have a confirmation on this one. thx, gerhard Hi!

I’m the author of Briss and since someone recently told me about problems with unnecessary margins on the nook with briss-cropped pdfs I’d like to ask for your expertise. If you crop a pdf with Briss and load it on the nook: Is there a difference between the visualization on the nook concerning margins and a normal pdf viewer(Acrobat or whatever)? It would be really great to have a confirmation on this one.

thx,
gerhard

]]> Comment on QuickBooks Frustrations by Mike Bridge http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/2009/04/07/quickbooks-frustrations/comment-page-1/#comment-1510 Mike Bridge Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:28:23 +0000 http://mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/?p=156#comment-1510 I stumbled upon your post while googling QBSDK issues---I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one horrified by its poor quality. I should have paid attention to the red flags in the introductory video where the guy tries to say that "upcasting" is a characteristic of Object Oriented code. This "upcasting" that goes on everywhere is the OPPOSITE of object oriented code. I'm currently trying to write a .Net wrapper like you describe to minimize the pain of using this awful library. :( I stumbled upon your post while googling QBSDK issues—I’m glad to see that I’m not the only one horrified by its poor quality. I should have paid attention to the red flags in the introductory video where the guy tries to say that “upcasting” is a characteristic of Object Oriented code. This “upcasting” that goes on everywhere is the OPPOSITE of object oriented code.

I’m currently trying to write a .Net wrapper like you describe to minimize the pain of using this awful library. :(

]]> Comment on 2D Mouse Picking with OpenGL & GLUT by Michael http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/2007/03/14/2d-mouse-picking-with-opengl-glut/comment-page-1/#comment-1398 Michael Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:20:26 +0000 http://mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/?p=14#comment-1398 Awesome! Glad to hear it helped. Awesome! Glad to hear it helped.

]]> Comment on 2D Mouse Picking with OpenGL & GLUT by Heiðar http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/2007/03/14/2d-mouse-picking-with-opengl-glut/comment-page-1/#comment-1394 Heiðar Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:45:06 +0000 http://mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/?p=14#comment-1394 Thank you for this - have been trying to accomplish this for hours :) Thank you for this – have been trying to accomplish this for hours :)

]]> Comment on Of Grants and Taxes by Zachary http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/2010/05/06/of-grants-and-taxes/comment-page-1/#comment-1388 Zachary Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:50:36 +0000 http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/?p=511#comment-1388 What is the Constitution? What is the Constitution?

]]> Comment on jqGrid Frustrations by Michael http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/2010/02/18/jqgrid-frustrations/comment-page-1/#comment-1312 Michael Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:58:18 +0000 http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/?p=474#comment-1312 Yep - which is sad. Yep – which is sad.

]]> Comment on jqGrid Frustrations by Zachary http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/2010/02/18/jqgrid-frustrations/comment-page-1/#comment-1311 Zachary Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:30:17 +0000 http://www.mad-computer-scientist.com/blog/?p=474#comment-1311 Wonderful, proves the copy and paste update with colnames and move on from example is the only way to use stuff for jQuery. Wonderful, proves the copy and paste update with colnames and move on from example is the only way to use stuff for jQuery.

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