From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Dec 01 10:46:47 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:46:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GqDPL-0002Bl-Dl for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:46:47 -0800 Received: from smtp.mail.umich.edu ([141.211.93.160] helo=skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GqDPG-0002Be-3R for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:46:47 -0800 Received: FROM [141.213.221.81] (bursley-221-81.reshall.umich.edu [141.213.221.81]) BY skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 45707854.4D503.4515 ; 1 Dec 2006 13:45:40 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) In-Reply-To: References: <45705277.6030700@perpetuum-immobile.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <01121E12-1C26-4681-81F8-B186E512E358@umich.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Alex Martini Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: minor misunderstanding of JSK Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:45:39 -0500 To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) X-archive-position: 3747 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: alexjm@umich.edu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Dec 1, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Matt Arnold wrote: > On 12/1/06, Betsemes wrote: >> On 12/1/06, Timo Paulssen wrote: >> [ li'o ] >> >> > > I regarded such an implementation to be top priority over >> anything >> > > else, I went eagerly to see what changes were made. Boy, I was so >> > > disappointed. The looks and feel of the game seemed to be top >> priority >> > > rather than improving it's usefulness as a learning tool. >> > >> > well, actually i was only called to action by eppcott because he >> had a >> > design that he wanted to be implemented and i did just that... >> > and basically i have to apologise for my dukse lazni ness, but >> part of >> > it is caused by my disliking of the uglyness of PHP. >> >> OK > > Who has the skills and desire to upgrade jboselkei to give these > features? Can jsk be rewritten in a language other than PHP? Why must > we assume jsk will be abandoned instead of improved? > -Eppcott If we have very specific things, I might be able to do them. PHP is similar enough to C++ that I can usually poke it a bit and make it do what I meant. Why would we want to rewrite jsk? What advantages would the new language have? And, out of curiosity, what database does jsk use? If it's something SQL, then php is probably pretty well suited -- based on the fact that SQL and PHP are used for a pretty large number of other pages. But I don't claim to be an expert on any of this; it took me a few days to pull together code to print every record in a book database sorted by author and series in a readable & usable manner.