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Besides retro operating systems, tholen also enjoys retro gaming! 129 39 (3/4/2011 8:46:45 PM) comp.lang.lisp [xposted to some groups tholen has posted to recently] I was on a Quake 1 CTF server this morning (yes, there really are still such things), and decided to sit out one game as a spectator (as I was having lu... Ken

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Why =?UTF-8?B?Q2Fu4oCZdA==?= You Import Packages? 44 68 (2/18/2011 7:25:37 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer Consider a piece of code which wants to use two different classes, com.example.android.sqlite.Useful and com.example.android.mysql.Useful. Your only reasonable options are: 1) Choose one to specify in an... Lawrence

switch using strings 128 109 (2/20/2011 9:24:21 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer ....which obviously won't work. I have a series of packets coming in with a header that contains a message name in text. I need to find a neat way to do a kind of switch statement on the message name. Any ... Dirk

Reading LAST line from text file without iterating through the file? 316 299 (2/23/2011 3:59:36 PM) comp.lang.java.programmer Is it possible to read the last text line from a text file WITHOUT reading the previous (n-1) lines? Robin ... rob

Besides retro operating systems, tholen also enjoys retro gaming! 129 39 (3/4/2011 8:46:45 PM) comp.lang.lisp [xposted to some groups tholen has posted to recently] I was on a Quake 1 CTF server this morning (yes, there really are still such things), and decided to sit out one game as a spectator (as I was having lu... kwesson (107)

syntatic sugar IN keyword. 14 28 (3/17/2011 5:11:55 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer I would like it if you could write: if ( birthYear == 610 || birthYear == 1791 || birthYear == 1851 || birthYear == 1872 ) ) as if ( birthYear in { 610, 1791, 1851, 1872} ) or if ( birthYear ... see_website (4855)

Binary Search 70 161 (3/24/2011 9:08:07 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer Is there some reason Java has no built-in Collection that keeps a sorted linear list and searches by binary search? You need something light weight and fast for small sets. Would such a beast just not fit in... Roedy

Any suggestions for handling data of huge dimension in Java? 24 206 (3/24/2011 10:09:48 AM) comp.lang.java.programmer Dear All, Good day. Regarding the subject, I am doing a research simulation by using java in eclipse galileo. My laptop is dell studio xps 1645 with i-7 processor and 4gb ram. When running the java source ... choonching5u (11)

The difficult learning curve of Lisp 11 37 (4/1/2011 12:56:41 AM) comp.lang.lisp I've read that learning Lisp (especially this thing called "functional programming") is more difficult to grasp than learning other programming languages because it forces your brain to operate at different lev... dwightarmyofchampions (33)

The Lisp Curse 207 50 (4/16/2011 10:18:47 AM) comp.lang.lisp An essay by Rudolf Winestock, http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html, posted in http://news.ycombinator.com/ , comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2450973 ... fernandoraya (1)

Lets see what tholen has to say about EMMETT 14 19 (2/27/2012 10:25:43 PM) comp.os.os2.advocacy So what say ye! (tholen), "'EMMETT!!!.' .." ... coloneljake1 (8)