We have some serious decisions to make gents:
Hello Gordan Cormack,
I am Robert Luong a student who will be taking CS444 next term. I was hoping you could answer a few questions our group has for our compiler:
1. We were wondering if we could write our compiler in Lisp? And if
so, do you know if the math environment provides us with any tools?
You may use Lisp provided that we can run your compiler on the undergrad environment. I'm not sure what's available. I know that MIT Scheme, and some other Schemes are available.2. If the language that we wanted to select could be Python as opposed to Ada?
I suspect I will not allow Python as a source language.3. Our team is writing a blog (not like Aardvark'd but just something to document our progress). We wanted to know what would acceptable and unacceptable content to be placed that would interfere with UW's cheating policies.
Not sure exactly what content you were thinking of. In general
I encourage sharing of ideas on the newsgroup, and test data.
And after the deadline what's yours is yours. I would not like
you to make your coded solutions to assignments available to
others in the course before the due date.
Did you have something specific in mind?
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Every time I glance at this blog entry's title I misread it as Corn Smacker which sounds like some terribly obscure rude sex slang.
Ahem, anyway.
So, that kills python :(
Sounds like the school environment only has scheme. I just logged into rees and it does not have clisp. I wonder if we would be able to download and install a lisp compiler/runtime as part of our assignment. Scheme can suffice if need be, but since we're learning Common Lisp, maybe we should nudge MFCF to install it. Ask Cormack if that would be allowed supposing it is feasible/possible.
As for the blog, I was thinking of wanting to write entries that consider a small window of code, detailing some major issue or problem or hack or what have you. So code snippets is the particular I'm curious about. If we simply need only wait until the assignment deadline is past, then we can draft our blog entries so that they remain hidden until then.
For shizzle my izzle hizzle. I'll pass it along.
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