why no "do : until"?

Cameron Laird claird at starbase.neosoft.com
Thu Jan 4 13:45:08 EST 2001


In article <932d0k$ita$1 at nntp6.u.washington.edu>,
Donn Cave  <donn at u.washington.edu> wrote:
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>If someone wants to contribute something useful to the language,
>make it work better in more environments - problem domains, computer
>platforms, graphic systems.  Make it smaller or faster.  Improve the
>exception interface in an existing component.  Add POSIX signal blocking
>to the signal module, make ptys work on another UNIX (or not) platform.
>Come up with a network server class system that doesn't put its sockets
>into unbuffered stdio, at the cost of 1 byte unbuffered reads.  A multi-
>thread dispatch system that works for a socket client, and doesn't rely
>on concurrent read and write access to the device to work.  I have to
>go, if none of these ideas is up your alley, just ask here and see if
>anyone else has an idea.  There is surely something productive left to
>be done.
>
>	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu

Nice list.  Also:  DOCUMENTATION (including tutorials),
useful bindings (SNMP, LDAP, Postgres, ...), ...
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