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Warp wrote:
> Does that mean that usually when you write software it doesn't work?
Varies by complexity.
Trivially simple things almost always work. More difficult things
sometimes work. Really hard things never work at all. (Remember that
operating system I was going to write? Yeah, that got a long way...)
Yesterday, I successfully implemented something that certainly looks
pretty complicated, and I'm impressed that it works. But then, I was
impressed when I wrote my first ray tracer - until I realised that
*everybody* writes ray tracers and nobody except me considers this to be
a significant achievement... :-(
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:11:40 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> until I realised that
> *everybody* writes ray tracers and nobody except me considers this to be
> a significant achievement...
Bull. (What you said, BTW, is commonly referred to as "hyperbole")
I don't write raytracers, and I have a lot of respect for anyone who
manages to wrap their heads around the maths involved and has the coding
skills to do so.
Jim
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:23:52 -0700, Chambers wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Language is a funny thing. I heard the construct "is was" the other
>> day. The context was "the question is was this the question?" (not
>> exactly, but in that structure). Funny to listen to....
>
> This is unstructured grammar. You need to implement the structured /
> modular paradigm in order to improve legibility, efficacy, and general
> communicative success :)
>
> In other words, "The question is, 'was this a question?'"
Well, yeah, but unless your name is Victor Borge, punctuation isn't
something you hear (per se).
Jim
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>> until I realised that
>> *everybody* writes ray tracers and nobody except me considers this to be
>> a significant achievement...
>
> Bull.
Elephant?
> (What you said, BTW, is commonly referred to as "hyperbole")
Oh. Right. I thought that was a kind of conic section?
> I don't write raytracers, and I have a lot of respect for anyone who
> manages to wrap their heads around the maths involved and has the coding
> skills to do so.
OK. Well apparently you're in the minority. It seems every time I talk
about my various ray tracer programs, all anybody can say is "yeah, but
it doesn't have feature X" or "oh, you're wasting your time, it'll never
be as fast as Y" or "I think that's a stupid way to do it, why don't you
give up now?" or...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:23:17 +0000, Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] dev null>
wrote:
>OK. Well apparently you're in the minority.
No he is not. You impress me quite a bit. (Only your programming, you
understand :-)
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Regards
Stephen
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>> OK. Well apparently you're in the minority.
>
> No he is not. You impress me quite a bit. (Only your programming, you
> understand :-)
Damn. If only girls found Prolog sexy... I'd get laid! Laid, I say!! :-(
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> OK. Well apparently you're in the minority. It seems every time I talk
> about my various ray tracer programs, all anybody can say is "yeah, but
> it doesn't have feature X" or "oh, you're wasting your time, it'll never
> be as fast as Y" or "I think that's a stupid way to do it, why don't you
> give up now?" or...
Yeah, but yours is not made with the POV-Ray SDL. ;)
--
- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Yeah, but yours is not made with the POV-Ray SDL. ;)
OK, even *I* am forced to admit the sheer coolness of that one... ;-)
Would you be more impressed if I implemented Prolog in POV-Ray? I
already implemented a Huffman decoder resulting in a self-extracting SDL
file!
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Damn. If only girls found Prolog sexy... I'd get laid! Laid, I say!! :-(
I think there are easier ways to get laid than Prolog.
--
- Warp
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Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> OK. Well apparently you're in the minority. It seems every time I talk
> about my various ray tracer programs, all anybody can say is "yeah, but
> it doesn't have feature X" or "oh, you're wasting your time, it'll never
> be as fast as Y" or "I think that's a stupid way to do it, why don't you
> give up now?" or...
Jealousy, or you're talking to people with a very narrow focus on their
own lives as well. :-)
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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