Re: [Funge] question + a new weird thing..

[Joshua J. B. <jjb...@uc...>]

You've kept us in the dark about this Temporal Funge thing. Are you going to
store a record of the funge space at every tick, so that time travel will be
possible within the program?

Here's what I've been thinking about:
I'm trying to cut down the Funge language even more, perhaps limiting the
stack to three levels and other such things, so that I can build an embedded
funge interpreter. I'm thinking something along the line of the BASICStamp.
(if you don't know what a BASICStamp is, look it up; it will change your
life.)

I'm also interested in producing a new standard of the language from the
Befunge-93 specification. There are some elements of Funge-98 that I'd like
to implement (file I/O), some I don't really like (the stack-stack), and
some new ideas of my own (floating point operations.). Now, of course,
floating point operations are unnecessary, as demonstrated in the mandelbrot
generation program, but I'd like to work out some compromise half-way.

Oh, and along the lines of subroutines, Gregory, I have some thoughts. While
I was sitting in a class today, I worked out a relatively nice way to
implement subroutines using only the original Befunge-93. It involves self
modifying code, and seems to be the most character-efficient way to do it.
I'll write a demonstration program and post it to the list in the near
future.

Speaking of which, someone (vsync?) should set up a Funge source archive to
replace the old Cat's Eye one. In the index file, it would be good to have
the version of the interpreter it is intended for, along with other
interpreters that it works or has been tested with. That way, when we
develop new stuff, we can share it with the world.

That's all for now.

Joshua Belsky
jjb...@uc...
http://www.belsky.net

----- Original Message -----
From: vsync <vs...@bi...>
To: <fun...@li...>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Funge] question + a new weird thing..


>
> "Joshua J. Belsky" <jjb...@uc...> writes:
>
> > Who are you?
>
> I'm Tim Howe, although I go by the moniker vsync everywhere online.  I
> am a junior at Standley Lake High School, in Westminster, CO.  After
> school, I work at Sun Microsystems.  Right now I'm designing and
> implementing the system for distributing software through our
> firewall, using Java.  I enjoy writing cross-platform, portable code,
> as well as various networked software.  I'd like to end up writing some
> AI code at some point.
>
> As soon as classes are a little less hectic, I hope to get around to
> starting my Temporal Funge interpreter.  Maybe once I figure it out
> myself, I can explain it better to all you guys.  =)  Anyway, I have
> the feeling it'll lead me to some interesting research-related type
> stuff.
>
> And I completely agree about specs, APIs, etc.  I have around 10 or so
> of those 1K-page books in my cube at work, and a few more at home.
>
> --
> vsync
> Beware.
>
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