evan_tech -- logjam dashboard

11:50 pm, 16 Aug 03

logjam dashboard

I downloaded mono on my old crappy PII-300 so I could try to interface LogJam with Dashboard. I can use X remotely with my wireless connection. (Mono won't build on PPC or I'd just do it on my primary computer...)

That's retrieving entries from my local store. It'd be pretty easy to let it also index based on date, and writing a full-text index wouldn't be so bad.

God, C# is a terrible language. I'm glad I don't have to use it to make a living or anything.
More when I'm a bit more sober. Also when I'm sober: read this, 'cause I have no clue what a monad is.

gaal	so many misunderstandings "atmosphere" isn't in reference to the 70ies Israeli progrock band, now is it? :) And: Monad has many senses, the one I knew previously being Leibniz's. (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09134b.htm, and scroll down to "Doctrine of Monads").
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evan
Re: so many misunderstandings
Atmosphere.

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marginoferror	What are the worst points about C#? Do you think there's a future for languages like C and C++ using the Mono virtual machine as a target? (warning: I might be really confused about the virtual machine thing)
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evan

To make and use an automatically-growing array, it's like this:

using System.Collections;
public ArrayList Entries = new ArrayList ();
for (int i = 0; i < 3 && i < idx.Entries.Count; i++) {
    LogJam.Entry entry = (LogJam.Entry) idx.Entries[i];
...

I thought we could've gotten past this sort of thing by now.

It seems C/C++ have an indefinitely long future in kernels, but as far as I know both GNOME and Microsoft are really pushing the CLR.

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mart

If you hate the casting, you could make an EntryList class atop ArrayList either as a subclass or a wrapper. Pretty easy, and makes the syntax nicer.

It's not much different to how Java has been until very recently.

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jace	Do you have a code example? The snipped Evan posted looks horrible. I hope I never have to write code like that for what would simply be `[element1, element2, element3]` in Python.
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supersat	Microsoft has a version of C++ ("C++ with Managed Extentions") that targets the CLR. It can also mark the code as "unsafe," allowing you to use pointers and manage memory yourself.
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youngoat Wouldn't java code be comparable (Sorry. I compare it to java because that's what everybody does.) Or is java a terrible language too?

I kinda' like C#...

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evan	Re: so many misunderstandings Atmosphere.
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youngoat	Wouldn't java code be comparable (Sorry. I compare it to java because that's what everybody does.) Or is java a terrible language too? I kinda' like C#...
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evan_tech

logjam dashboard

so many misunderstandings

Re: so many misunderstandings