From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Apr 30 14:38:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26367 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:38:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26357 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:38:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23333; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:37:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Tom Bartol cc: Suttipan Limanond , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: matlab for linux and freebsd In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Apr 1998 12:06:59 PDT." Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:37:27 -0700 Message-ID: <23329.893972247@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > were not acceptable to many lab members soooo... So, I sent a lengthy > letter to Dr. Cleve Moler himself (Chief Scientist at the Mathworks), in Hmmm. I wonder if Dr. Moler still remembers me - we worked together on a project back in the mid 80's. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to call. :) > justify the unknown market potential of the product. By the way, did you > know that the Matlab language parser was implemented brute-force by hand > and is NOT written using lex and yacc? That's pretty funny considering that another other guy working on that project (and my boss) was Steve Johnson. :-) You'd think something might have rubbed off. > Of course, I reported this to the folks at the Mathworks right away with > detailed instructions on how I got it to work and even a diff file to > patch their sh scripts so that future releases would be "FreeBSD Linux > emulator ready". Their response was, 1) "that's neat" and 2) "we don't > support that". Wonderful. What really got me steamed though, was a Grrrrr, those twinks. You'd think they'd be more cooperative in light of all the work you did. Hmmm. Let me make a few calls and twist a few tails. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message