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Re: Show HN: Writing an HTTP server in Prolog

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 4:53 AM UTC

kazinator wrote: post #69

lispm wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stallman was member of X3J13? What did he do there?

Am I mis-remembering something? [update: no] Richard Gabriel's and Guy Steele's Evolution of Lisp lists Stallman among the people in a "Common Lisp Group". See: https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/Hopl2.pdf (P. 21) Steele's CLTL (1) gives a list of people who were involved in the actual ANSI XJ13, but Stallman isn't listed. Stallman, however, is credited in that very same book and section as having worked on an implemen…

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Re: Show HN: Writing an HTTP server in Prolog

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Post by justinator » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 7:14 AM UTC

mst wrote: post #43

hossbeast wrote: post #14

.pl is perl, use .pg for prolog

Amusingly perl's documentation says .pl is for a perl library and perl scripts should be .plx (for perl executable). So nobody pays attention to that rule anyway. I do get slightly confused switching between #perl and ##prolog on freenode sometimes, but the other regulars just laugh at me and we move on ;)

This may be true in Perl 4, but hasn't been a rule in this century, I don't believe.

Re: Show HN: Writing an HTTP server in Prolog

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Post by lispm » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 12:29 PM UTC

kazinator wrote: post #69

lispm wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stallman was member of X3J13? What did he do there?

Am I mis-remembering something? [update: no] Richard Gabriel's and Guy Steele's Evolution of Lisp lists Stallman among the people in a "Common Lisp Group". See: https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/Hopl2.pdf (P. 21) Steele's CLTL (1) gives a list of people who were involved in the actual ANSI XJ13, but Stallman isn't listed. Stallman, however, is credited in that very same book and section as having worked on an implemen…

On the Common Lisp mailing list there are 30 mails from RMS.

His participation ended in 83. Before CLtL1 was published and way before X3J13 was started.

I'd say RMS was never a member of X3J13.

Re: Show HN: Writing an HTTP server in Prolog

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Post by mst » Tue, Nov 15, 2016, 6:57 PM UTC

justinator wrote: post #72

mst wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amusingly perl's documentation says .pl is for a perl library and perl scripts should be .plx (for perl executable). So nobody pays attention to that rule anyway. I do get slightly confused switching between #perl and ##prolog on freenode sometimes, but the other regulars just laugh at me and we move on ;)

This may be true in Perl 4, but hasn't been a rule in this century, I don't believe.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1567546/is-the-perl-plx-f...

It's not a rule I can remember encountering anybody actually following, but it's still theoretically a thing at least up to about a decade ago, which is very definitely perl5 era.

It's not where I thought it was in the perldoc though, so either it isn't in there at all or I screwed up looking for it.

So, roughly, "I think it turns out we're both sort-of wrong" :)