2024-11-28 01:10:53 <KipIngram   > I think most compiler books go through that, because it's common to put arithmetic in postfix form before generating code.
2024-11-28 04:33:03 <xentrac     > sure, because postfix is the order you have to emit the instructions in for any machine that executes machines in order
2024-11-28 04:33:11 <xentrac     > *executes instructions in order
2024-11-28 04:34:22 <xentrac     > the nicest illustration I've seen of this is Darius Bacon's https://github.com/darius/parson/blob/master/eg_calc_compile.py#L34
2024-11-28 04:35:52 <xentrac     > but that's not in Forth
2024-11-28 04:38:45 <xentrac     > it's pretty similar to xcombellle's example from the other night, but it's for infix rather than postfix (factored to eliminate left recursion) and written in Parson rather than in Python
2024-11-28 04:54:36 <KipIngram   > Just thought of another one of those things that has disappeared (mostly) from the world.  At least in terms of significance.  I just asked my 20 year old daughter if she knew what the Yellow Pages were.  She had no clue - I had to explain it to her.
2024-11-28 04:55:34 <KipIngram   > I guess the phone book was really a database, indexed by two keys (entity name in the white pages and entity type in the yellow pages).
2024-11-28 05:00:11 <thrig       > in some cities, they continued to maile yellow pages to everyone because of inertia
2024-11-28 05:10:54 <xentrac     > I wonder if they still exist somewhere.
2024-11-28 13:15:18 <veltas      > KipIngram: Damn you're making me feel old now (re yellow pages)
2024-11-28 15:55:59 <KipIngram   > Heh heh.  Well, you don't actually have to be THAT old to "remember them at all."  I just remember them over quite a big chunk of my life.
2024-11-28 15:56:22 <KipIngram   > They are still around, I think; just a pale shadow of the significance they used to have.
2024-11-28 15:58:25 <KipIngram   > Every now and then I just think of one of these things.  The little dot that used to hang out at the middle of your TV screen for a while after you turned it off is another.
2024-11-28 15:58:49 <KipIngram   > Fretting over "long distance charges" when you phoned relatives.  Etc.
2024-11-28 15:59:15 <KipIngram   > Turning the TV antenna.
2024-11-28 17:37:46 <veltas      > I mean I remember using white pages, not really the yellow pages although I remember looking through it
2024-11-28 17:38:03 <veltas      > Feels like it's actually somehow harder to browse local info like that now
2024-11-28 17:38:24 <veltas      > Assuming white pages are basically a 'phone book'
2024-11-28 17:56:46 <thrig       > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wNTIPaBbPI
2024-11-28 20:03:04 <KipIngram   > BTW, Happy Thanksgiving, to those of you here in the U.S.
2024-11-28 22:20:38 <KipIngram   > veltas: Yes, I do think it's a little harder.  You could generally count on everything in the Yellow Pages being local.  Searching for a business type along with a zip code here in the US usually works ok, but it doesn't seem quite as direct to me.
2024-11-28 22:21:07 <KipIngram   > And within the Yellow Pages sections the names were still alphabetical, and that sometimes was helpful.
2024-11-28 22:21:18 <KipIngram   > Search results don't have that - there's no telling how they'll be ordered.
2024-11-28 22:22:01 <KipIngram   > And with the Yellow Pages you knew that everyone listed in a section had paid money THIS YEAR to be there.
2024-11-28 22:23:01 <KipIngram   > And usually bigger companies had paid for bigger space, so some information along those lines was there too.  Not for sure, but it tended to correlate.
2024-11-28 23:03:49 <tabemann    > I remember the yellow pages and the white pages and turning the TV antenna and the dot in the middle of the screen... of course I have a kid in high school at this point
2024-11-28 23:03:56 <tabemann    > which means I'm kinda old by now