From joel.bertrand at systella.fr Thu Jul 17 10:12:38 2014 From: joel.bertrand at systella.fr (=?UTF-8?B?QkVSVFJBTkQgSm/Dq2w=?=) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 10:12:38 +0200 Subject: [RPL/2] RPL/2 4.1.18 Message-ID: <53C78576.9000008@systella.fr> Hello, New RPL/2 release available (4.1.18) with some bugfixes: - major regression is fixed in SysV semaphore emulation subsystem (segfault). xBSD was able to be affected by this bug; - gmp and ncurses were upgraded; - empilement_pile_last() is modified to delete argument from current stack if it cannot save all arguments (to few arguments error _before_ first call to depilement() by parent routine). Regards, JKB From joel.bertrand at systella.fr Sat Jul 26 12:23:36 2014 From: joel.bertrand at systella.fr (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?BERTRAND_Jo=EBl?=) Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:23:36 +0200 Subject: [RPL/2] Do you have documentation of how to use the interactive command line? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53D381A8.7030708@systella.fr> Jason Shields a écrit : > I'm completely frustrated with your language! Ah ? Why ? And by the way, hello, nice to speak to you ! > You don't give any > expanation of how to use it. I guess you did not read the f*ucking manual I have written for you. If you have read it, you could see that interactive mode can be launched by rpl -i and that a very strange keyword I have oddly called "HELP" is available. I offer this language as is for a very long time (1998). I know that lack of documentation. BUT : - there is a mailing list to obtain help ; - HP28 manual a sufficient ; - you can offer help to translate french documentation ; - you can help to write a documentation in english. I know that bugzilla is currently broken due to a bug in mod-perl. You can report bugs on mailing list also. > I'm sick of it! Plus, mathematics and > computer programs are made interresting by the existence of Quine > programs. Quine is not in my TODO list but you can try to write a quine if you have time enough. And I don't know how you could write a quine in interactive mode. > I've tried to construct a valid Quine using rpl/2 but for > some reason, you decided to make it an error. *I* have decided to make it an error ? I do not even known what you wrote. I you want some help, send your code to the mailing list. > Completely useless for > AI. You should just take the HP50G+ emu from the hpcalc site and > engineer it for use in windows and linux. Completely useless Maybe completely useless for *YOU*. RPL/2 is not an emulator but a real language. I use it (with RPL/C) to solve NP-complet problems on parallel computers that contains more than 256 CPU. This language is used by a lot of users (universities, laboratories...) and if it were useless, it would be much less downloaded. JKB