Re : Deafening

[fospot-gnu]

Michael,

I was away for a couple of weeks (one week abroad + easter vacation).

I know I'm not active - I had some (family) trouble near the end of last year - 
It wasn't easy.

When I first started with Sather - I was somehow (very) motivated: new to fsf, 
to sather etc...

I read the tutorial - rented and set up a remote linux machine (my computer is 
an old powerpc mac - couldn't run Sather on it) - I could compile and run 
Sather 
programs, including the browser which caused trouble under certain conditions.

But then, Sather isn't one of the easiest languages to debug.
And I couldn't find a way to modify the sather homepage 
(http://www.gnu.org/software/sather/).
And each time I want to start working again, I have some trouble starting up 
again.

If you would like to take over as a maintainer, I would gladly follow. 
You seem to have a clear(er) vision on the past/current and future state of 
Sather.

Best regards,
Fadi.



----- Message d'origine ----
> De : Sather User <address@hidden>
> À : address@hidden
> Envoyé le : Lun 25 avril 2011, 13h 00min 46s
> Objet : Deafening
> 
> This list is not.
> 
> May I suggest that some traffic would be beneficial for  the language?  For
> the list to be a black hole is not.
> 
> Please do  something.  Tell us what if anything you are doing with
> Sather.   Write and post here a little program illustrating one of its
> features.   Anything.  Remind us of what the hello world program looks like,
> or  think of a variant to it.  What about a reverse Polish calculator?
> Start  with
> 
> #OUT+"? ";
> k ::= #IN.get_str.cursor;
> 
> use one of the stacks  given as examples in the manual, and process the
> values and operators typed  in.  Use RATs and allow the precision to be
> specified as an  option.  If the resulting program is too long to post
> here, say what you  did and what it does.
> 
> Anything.
> 
> --Michael Talbot-Wilson
> 
>