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Wednesday, August 14, 2002 |
Common Lisp programming job available in New Zealand.
"...The Institute of IT Research at AUT has a new position available for
programmers interested in developing advanced software in a research
environment. Strong preference would be given to candidates with
excellent knowledge of LISP programming and a good knowledge of speech
and/or language research. This position falls within the range from
Research Assistant to Senior Researcher (must have a PhD), with an
available salary of up to $NZ60,000 pa. The position is, in the first
instance, fixed term for 3 years.
The Institute of IT Research is also offering up to 3 scholarships for
PhD studies in the area of speech and language research. Each
scholarship will be for up to three years at an annual emolument of
NZ$15,000 plus tuition fees at the level payable to a New Zealand
student. ..."
11:54:12 PM 
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James Knight posts to the Goo mailing list some code to do trace and untrace of methods. The code is interesting in that it creates "around method" functionality in Goo by effectively adding to the type system: ;; first create a really basic "around method" functionality for GOO.
;; This is an nifty hack, but only lets you have one around method
;; at a time, and only one that applies to every argument.
;; With a little work it could be extended to be more general.
(dc <AROUND-TYPE> (<TYPE>))
(dv <AROUND> (new <AROUND-TYPE>))
;; "interesting" type relations to fake out the method dispatcher:
;; <AROUND> is a subtype of everything, yet every instance is
;; an instance of it.
(dm subtype? (x|<TYPE> y|<AROUND-TYPE> => <LOG>) #f)
(dm subtype? (y|<AROUND-TYPE> x|<TYPE> => <LOG>) #t)
(dm subtype? (y|<AROUND-TYPE> x|<AROUND-TYPE> => <LOG>) #t)
(dm isa? (o x|<AROUND-TYPE> => <LOG>) #t)
11:47:01 PM
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Oracle releases Open Source software for Linux. They've made available a number of interesting open source libraries from Firewire patches to user interface libraries. All under a GNU/GPL License.
ComputerWorld has an article about it. From the article, talking about the effect of releasing the code on other companies who sell competing products, Vice President of database marketing at Oracle Robert Shimp says:
"It's a classic open-source story. The [companies] that offer proprietary products are going to have to add value above and beyond the open-source products"
10:19:31 AM
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© Copyright 2005 Chris Double.
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