Apologies for not keeping up. Too many things going on.
Stephen Isard <S.IsardDeleteThis@ed.ac.uk> (who made important
contributions in the early days of Pop-11, including proposing the
define ... enddefine syntax to replace function ... end in Pop2)
writes:
> Ok, I'm hoping to get some boiling done this weekend. If I think the
> result is good enough to do more than generate frustration for newcomers
> to poplog, I'll offer it to the Birmingham site if they are interested.
> If it doesn't look usable by anyone who doesn't already know their way
> around the poplog system, I'll put it on my own page and ask for help
> from you (and anyone else who is interested). If it's just a mess, I'll
> shut up until it isn't.
Anything you produce and are willing to let loose on the world
could be installed here with pointer to it in the general file
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html
Especially if you provide me with a paragraph (html if possible)
describing it.
If you prefer, it could go on your own site for a while, with a
pointer from here. Then whenever you wish you can update it
without asking me to do so, until it becomes stable.
That's one of the nice things about the web. There doesn't have to
be any noticeable difference between a link to something in the
same directory and a link to something in another country
(Scotland, for readers who hadn't noticed.).
Actually it would be very nice to have a mini-pop-11 which supports
the text based teaching tools (e.g. teach river, teach grammar,
etc.) so that people who want to try it out can do so before getting
the full-blown version.
My wife recently connected her PC to Freeserve so I now at last see
for myself how slow a link to a site down the road can be (4kb per
sec, despite a high speed modem. I wonder if Freeserve deliberately
slow it down so that people stay connected longer, and then
freeserve get a commission from the telephone company.)
I am investigating alternative service providers.
uk2.net seem to be very good, but mainly aimed at supporting
businesses.
Aaron
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Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
EMAIL A.Sloman AT cs.bham.ac.uk (ReadATas@please !)
PAPERS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/
FREE TOOLS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html
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