List Commands Library for 50g

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(07-20-2018 11:36 PM)DavidM Wrote:  I've had a couple of detours, but some good progress has been made. I've managed to make some refinements to a couple of the stack commands as well as incorporating some enhancements to the operations of a few others. I also added a list-normalization command to address the issue identified in this thread.

I missed that one, nice exchange between you and Claudio. I understand what Claudio means but actually there is a lot of (niche) interest in the uRPL world still, plus if something is fun then that's it. As how my memory (that failed, see below n1) remembers Valentin saying in one of his recent posts "people spend a lot of time to produce libraries that may be used by 10 other people or less" (wrong, see n1) and I replied like "yes but if it is a fun/learning process, so be it". Also it depends how heavily those 10 people will use the library.

n1: what Valentin said was different. This was pointed out in subsequent messages in this thread. Lesson learned (again): my memory/understanding is not that accurate at times.

Quote:That's the decades-long problem I've always resented: people will constantly produce this or that library, or this or that utilities ROM, or this or that utilities LEX files and so on and so forth, which are then published and/or made available for free or nearly so, intended to be used in people's own programs and such. So far so good.

Regrettably, most people either don't use them in actual, non-trivial programs or, if they do, they don't make them publicly available so in the end the community rarely gets full-fledged, useful programs but tons upon tons of routines, libraries, utilities, etc., apparently because people love to write libraries and utilities (it's like solving a puzzle or a challenge) but complex, useful programs not so much.

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