Comments on: Welcome

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:20:07 +0000

I’m glad the quotes that were a part of the Mormon Metaphysics main page will also be found on your blog.

By: Clark

Clark — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:28:54 +0000

Hey, sorry for not having time to finish things up. We’re painting our basement and as soon as that is done I promise the blog will get the attention it needs.

A few things.

1. Getting identical functionality to VBA with Yacc is unlikely simply because it is done with so many hacks. However you could get pretty close and then deal with special cases with Lex tweaks.

2. Saying Yacc is a useless tool is jaw dropping. Wow. There are some cases it doesn’t handle well and for really, really, really simple stuff a hand written tool can be better. But for nearly everything else Yacc is much faster and more maintainable.

By: Message for Clark

Message for Clark — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:58:20 +0000

I saw a comment you left about using YACC to recreate VBA.

I can only assume that you’re either a very, very clever troll, or someone who isn’t very cognizant of how the MS empire came to be.

I hate to say it, but a) Yes, YACC was around in the 90s and B) It’s a useless tool for almost everything. There’s no way MS could even attempt to reverse engineer their codebase – they don’t work from formal specs and the guys who cobbled that mess together are long gone. There is no practical way to get a meaningful spec from any MS file format.

Most people would rather write a grammar parser from scratch than mess about with YACC, Lex, Bison and all those tedious tool chains.

Most programmers who write compilers look on YACC with the same disdain that most mormons reserve for Caffeine Drinks.

By: Steve Esser

Steve Esser — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:49:29 +0000

Hi Clark: I know there’s many competing demands on your time, but here’s hoping more blogging is in your future. Good luck with everything. – Steve Esser

By: Ivan Wolfe

Ivan Wolfe — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:53:00 +0000

I can tell you right now, that Internet Explorer hates this blog. The whole thing is shifted to the right, so that most of it’s off the screen.

I think it’s about time I made Firefox my main browser. IE7 does this to about a dozen Blogs I read. Microsoft needs help.

By: Rich Knapton

Rich Knapton — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:07:37 +0000

Welcome back! Although I do miss the LDS reference. How about something like LDS Musings on (whatever).

Rich

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:54:34 +0000

Oh, regarding the change in name. I want to make it a bit broader. I’ll still have religious posts since I can categorize here easily.

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:54:05 +0000

Hey guys – sorry I didn’t get the css fixed over the weekend. I was going to work on it and my internet went down. I’m going to try and get my old style sheet more or less moved over and just doing a fairly thorough overhall of this one.

Blake, I’m going to try and get the sideblog put up – I’m just not sure how to do it yet.

Regarding comment numbering – I’ll look at the PHP and see how easy that is to add.

I’ll also hopefully have up a real post tomorrow. I don’t want to do that until I have the style sheets readable on Windows though.