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Old 2010-08-25, 00:05   #848
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Worthless analogy of the day:

sm is building what looks like a shed, pounding in nails with a coconut. kar_bon says, "Instead of using that coconut, why not use this hammer?". CRGreathouse says, "Good start, but making a rocketship is hard, even with a hammer." sm says, "You don't get it, I'm building a rocketship with this coconut because I want to get better with coconuts (and because I want a rocketship).".
What an accurate analogy.
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Old 2010-08-25, 00:15   #849
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fine then WTF do you get me interested ? if you don't want me to do anything with life don't give me life, if you don't want me to do within Pari then why did you bother to get me into it in the first place and WTF is the forum here if you constantly seem to not care what others think.

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Old 2010-08-25, 00:27   #850
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fine then WTF do you get me interested ? if you don't want me to do anything with life don't give me life, if you don't want me to do within Pari then why did you bother to get me into it in the first place and WTF is the forum here if you constantly seem to not care what others think.
I think it's great that you (and pi) are learning Pari, and I don't mind if you aren't able to finish your project. I've certainly started projects that I wasn't able to finish, but were worthwhile.

I see two reasonable approaches here. There's the KB plan: learn C or Perl and write your parser. The parser won't be perfect, but it will be able to transform some queries into valid Pari code, and that's pretty cool.

The other approach is the SM plan: keep writing it in Pari. The parser won't be as easy to write, but you'll learn a whole lot more about Pari than you would with the other method.

Of course you could also give up, but in that case you have neither parser nor Pari skills.
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lets put it this way I know more syntax in Pari then i do in any other language I've learned before , so me doing Perl or C is likely going to never work. you seem to be the only one I've talked to have an interest other than me in the PARI method and I sent a few PM's to check for someone who knows perl but I haven't found anyone.
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fine then WTF do you get me interested ? if you don't want me to do anything with life don't give me life, if you don't want me to do within Pari then why did you bother to get me into it in the first place and WTF is the forum here if you constantly seem to not care what others think.
Stop raging, this is merely an Internet message board for math enthusiasts. Follow this: "As soon as I exit this forum, you no longer exist."

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Stop raging, this is merely an Internet message board for math enthusiasts. Follow this: "As soon as I exit this forum, you no longer exist."
I rarely have the forum closed during the day even when I'm away I have it open most days.
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I rarely have the forum closed during the day even when I'm away I have it open most days.
Last off-topic post: "As soon as I stop viewing this forum, you no longer exist." ?
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I rarely have the forum closed during the day even when I'm away I have it open most days.
That's the best pair of snarky posts I've seen all week.
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That's the best pair of snarky posts I've seen all week.
Well, only hopeless failures, internet addicts, and/or gullible morons believe someone actually cares for them over the Internet. It's simply the truth.

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Well, only hopeless failures, internet addicts, and/or gullible morons believe someone actually cares for them over the Internet. It's simply the truth.
you've defined me and my life dead on. happy days.
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Here's a good place if you want to fiddle around with TeX. (LaTeX, to be exact. I don't know the differences between the two.)

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