Aaron W. Hsu

Descot Progress Report 1

Thursday, 9. July 2009, 07:12:52

Descot is making headway. Most of the basic API and server is written, and the system is partly usable. However, at the moment, submissions to Descot servers really lacks. I am spending most of my Descot alotted time blocks trying to get the right infrastructure going for this so that the system is usable for people.

Hopefully, soon, the system will be released in an useful manner. I can then package up a Version 1.0 release, and start getting many comments, which I suspect most of Schemeland will have.

On the plus side, the Descot paper has been approved for the Scheme workshop, so I'll be giving a small mini-presentation on Descot there.

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Government Cake (Terrible Ideas #2)

Tuesday, 7. July 2009, 04:29:45

wealth, deficit, politics, government ...

I'll never quite understand people who are all worried about the massive spending of the government, the deficit, and the like, who then turn right back around and complain that the government isn't giving them enough benefits, like health care. I mean, really, people, do you actually think the Government *has* wealth?

Do people really think that the government can give them anything without first taking more than what they give from the very people to whom they "give?" IT doesn't work like that, sorry.

Yes, there are people so disillusioned.

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Terrible ideas #1

Monday, 6. July 2009, 03:09:10

define-macro, scheme, hygiene, syntax-case ...

Why do people do such things? Why take a perfectly disastrous 'define-macro' incantation and turn it into a longer, worse 'syntax-case' incantation? The idea of moving to a sane macro system like syntax-case is to take advantage of a higher-level of macrology; in this case, the automatic hygiene. No, just take the whole blimey code snippet and wrap it in a 'datum->syntax' why don't you? Good way to make bad code worse!

Instead, the solution is to search for that place where the hygience 'needs' to be broken, and leave everything in the land of hygiene: nice, neat, and clean.

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