Todd A. Jacobs | 21 Mar 2011 22:15
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Challenges?

Does anyone on the list have any current shell or ruby challenges that
they're dealing with? Things have been very quiet here lately, and I'm
looking for something a little tricky to stretch the grey matter.

Juha Saarinen | 21 Mar 2011 22:46
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Re: Challenges?

On 22/03/2011 10:15 a.m., Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> Does anyone on the list have any current shell or ruby challenges that
> they're dealing with? Things have been very quiet here lately, and I'm
> looking for something a little tricky to stretch the grey matter.

Heh.

Have had all kinds of things to do lately, bar scripting of any kind.

Can ask on Twitter for you though :)

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Ken Irving | 5 Apr 2011 18:45
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Re: Challenges?

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 02:15:13PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> Does anyone on the list have any current shell or ruby challenges that
> they're dealing with? Things have been very quiet here lately, and I'm
> looking for something a little tricky to stretch the grey matter.

I've been doing a lot of bash scripting lately, but have been
unable to post to the list for some time.  Sending this after 
another round of trying to get google-groups to work, and maybe
it'll go this time...

I've been working on a system for some time using programs of
any sort as methods in an object-oriented system, with run-time
resolution of objects and methods.  The main program driving the
system is a bash script, built up from functions in a development
directory.  Along with this I've been using symlinks as variables, 
apparently an untapped resource.

Ken

Todd A. Jacobs | 7 Apr 2011 15:48
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Re: Challenges?

On Apr 5, 9:45 am, Ken Irving <ken.irv...@...> wrote:
> unable to post to the list for some time.  Sending this after
> another round of trying to get google-groups to work, and maybe
> it'll go this time...

I've had some messages "disappear" with Google Groups, too. It seems
highly unreliable sometimes.

> I've been working on a system for some time using programs of
> any sort as methods in an object-oriented system, with run-time

I remember you talking about this sometime back. I don't think I ever
understood the utility of it, though.

Ken Irving | 7 Apr 2011 18:44
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Re: Re: Challenges?

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 06:48:56AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On Apr 5, 9:45 am, Ken Irving <ken.irv...@...> wrote:
> > unable to post to the list for some time.  Sending this after
> > another round of trying to get google-groups to work, and maybe
> > it'll go this time...
> 
> I've had some messages "disappear" with Google Groups, too. It seems
> highly unreliable sometimes.

My problem was due to confusion between multiple accounts and
was on my end, but I stumbled on the right incantation this time.

> > I've been working on a system for some time using programs of
> > any sort as methods in an object-oriented system, with run-time
> 
> I remember you talking about this sometime back. I don't think I ever
> understood the utility of it, though.

I'm using it on various servers doing data processing, where the code is
mostly in small, independent programs as opposed to larger monilithic
ones.  I guess the goal is to try to use the filesystem and process
model as directly as possible to store data and operate on them.

I recently made the type/class links fully symbolic, resolved at run
time, where formerly those links had to resolve statically to their
class directories.  Types can now include ordinary files in addition to
directories; e.g., a class can declare that a file foo will be a boolean
attribute, with methods to operate on foo found in a class directory.

The scheme is experimental and evolving, but is functional enough to
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