anthony lorelli
With No Definite Future And No Purpose Other Than To Prevail Somehow ...[The Mermen, A Glorious Lethal Euphoria]

Friday, May 24, 2002

Paul Graham: "For example, in the OO world you hear a good deal about 'patterns'. I wonder if these patterns are not sometimes evidence of case (c), the human compiler, at work. When I see patterns in my programs, I consider it a sign of trouble. The shape of a program should reflect only the problem it needs to solve. Any other regularity in the code is a sign, to me at least, that I'm using abstractions that aren't powerful enough-- often that I'm generating by hand the expansions of some macro that I need to write." 12:44:50 PM    comment []

Bill Hayden went public the other day with the project he's putting together using the Linux kernel and the Atheos app_server: Cosmoe (Compatible Open-Source Multi Operating-system Environment). He hopes to be able to compile OpenTracker on it at some point (mostly as a test of BeOS API compatibility, apparently - not necessarily for use as the desktop shell). Glad to see someone making use of the Atheos code, even if Kurt Skauen, the primary author of Atheos, is against it - isn't that the whole point of releasing code under the GPL? 9:30:01 AM    comment []

No visible updates to the NewOS page since 3/26/02, but a look at the change log shows regular activity - glad to see it! NewOS is already being used as the kernel for the OpenBeOS project. 9:20:01 AM    comment []

Domain of the day: http://www.function-pointer.org/. 8:16:01 AM    comment []