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Comment on NNDB 0.1 by Andy Balaam

Andy Balaam — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:15:46 +0000

Hi, I haven’t looked at MPL yet – I only discovered it recently. Fusion also sounds very interesting – thanks!

By the way, I submitted my code and it was accepted into Loki: http://loki-lib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/loki-lib/trunk/include/loki/ForEachType.h?view=markup

Comment on NNDB 0.1 by Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:46:19 +0000

You mention in your article that you need TypelistForEach, which (if I understood correctly), doesn’t exist in Loki yet; did you have a look at Boost.MPL (MetaProgramming Library)? It proposes a huge set of type containers along with several algorithms to operate on them at compile-time, such as transform, sort, fold and so on.

You could also check out Boost.Fusion, a library making the link between pure compile-time computations (cf. MPL) and pure runtime computations (cf. STL). It contains several heterogeneous containers that can be manipulated either at compile-time with metafunctions or at runtime with “classic” functions.

Comment on NNDB’s Not a Database by Andy Balaam

Andy Balaam — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:54:49 +0000

Thanks Guillaume – really interesting projects, and further really interesting links at the bottom of the second one. I knew someone else must have done something like this before…

In self-augmenting language it is possible to build something like this on top of a real database, which I think would be very difficult in C++.

I have been having thoughts about what my ideal language would be. Recently I have been wondering about whether it’s possible to create a self-augmenting language that is also compiled in a traditional way, and type-safe in the C++ sense. Essentially I want to be able to extend the C++ compiler at compile time.

Comment on NNDB’s Not a Database by Guillaume Yziquel

Guillaume Yziquel — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:03:06 +0000

Two projects that might be interesting to you, though quite far from C++ userland.

PG’OCamlm by Richard Jones: http://pgocaml.berlios.de/

A statically typed relational algebra by Mauricio Fernandez:
http://eigenclass.org/hiki/addressing-orm-problem-typed-relational-algebra

Comment on Keyboard layout change in Ubuntu by miki

miki — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:04:49 +0000

andy balaam, yes!, this was a great help indeed, should be more widely known one, I am using Linux for 10 years and never got to it…Thanks! Croatian and Polish, with mandarin (zhujin), really good.

Comment on NNDB’s Not a Database by Andy Balaam

Andy Balaam — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:34:05 +0000

Thanks! I am actually currently reading http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html and loving it. It turns out pretty much all the interesting stuff in template metaprogramming is almost identical to how you would do the same thing in LISP.

Comment on NNDB’s Not a Database by SG

SG — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:52:01 +0000

“instead of generating code to match your data, or generating SQL to match your code, why not specify your data structure in code?”

See LISP :)

PS: Really cool C++ project!

Comment on Keyboard layout change in Ubuntu by ulkas

ulkas — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:21:25 +0000

2chris lanz:
just put it into automatic sessions:
menu-system-preferences-sessions

Comment on Firefox keyword search for finding C++ keywords by Charles Bailey

Charles Bailey — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:30:22 +0000

Strangely, I still find my hardcopy of ISO/IEC/BS 14882:2003 the most convenient reference for C++. Ctrl-F in the pdf version at work also works quite well but is somehow not as satisfyingly tactile.

Comment on Keyboard layout change in Ubuntu by chris lanz

chris lanz — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:05:42 +0000

Actually, it seems I’ll have to run the sudo xmodmap every time I boot. Is there any way I can get it into a config.sys or autoexec.bat, to use a couple of ancient terms?