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

Tuesday, June 25, 2002

ForthOS Odd project from the author of VSTa - ForthOS, a Forth environment that can run as an executable under a POSIX-style host OS or standalone on the bare metal. 4:17:01 PM    comment []

Virtual machine design Virtual Machine Design and Implementation in C/C++ [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] Wonder if the book is any good - I can think of several projects I'd like to work on that would benefit from reading it, if it is - an emulator for MIX, for instance, or designing elements of a VM directly into the OS I'm slowly (slowly (slowly)) working on. Just read on the ruby-talk mailing list that Parrot is approaching alpha. Far enough along that someone just contributed a working BASIC implementation. 2:15:32 PM    comment []

JSTL 1.0 The final 1.0 release of the JSP Standard Tag Library is available from the Jakarta Project. JSTL's design seems motley - it includes tags for iteration, conditionals, "expression languages," text inclusion, internationalization, and xml twiddling. I might eventually use the iteration or conditional tags, but doubt I'll use any of the others. The inclusion of the "expression language" (modeled after ECMAScript, IRC) is a particular low point. If a page author really needs to embed executable statements in a page, why not just use Java? More importantly, why isn't there a group of tags for interface creation and layout - what could be more appropriate for the Standard Tag Library? Is it because of overlap with the JavaServer Faces project? 9:57:53 AM    comment []