2013-03-17



Today, I've met Francesc Hervada-Sala.  [0]  He's  an  impressive
person.

We had email contact in 2010 and again last  year,  but  I  never
managed  to  get  started  exploring  and following his work. Two
weeks ago, eventually, I managed to reply  an  old  message  from
him.  This  started the conversation and today we even managed to
meet. :-)

He works on the concept of an ``everything is text''  environment
and  on  an  experimental implementation of the idea. His work is
difficult to grasp and thus my words here are the  same.  I  must
admit that I'm not yet familiar with the whole picture, just read
a few bits and was talking with him today. The idea and his  work
are  definitely  worth  a deeper look. I'll start this by reading
his book ``Text-oriented Software'' (right  after  I've  finished
``Software Tools'').

If you are interested, have a look at the old  [1]  and  new  [2]
project websites and on his blog.  [3] There's a lot of  informa-
tion  to  explore.  (And if you search for an interesting project
to participate, just tell him!)



Today, I also set up tatort-dl.   [4]  I  needed  to  adjust  the
shared library path to include the locally compiled librtmp.so:

     echo /usr/local/lib >>/etc/ld.so.conf
     ldconfig

Alternatively,   you   can   use   the    environment    variable
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.   This is documented in the man page ld(1).  You
might want to have a look at `ldconfig -p'.



I'm not sure if I ever used eval in a shell  script  of  my  own.
Today,  however,  I  provided  this small example for someone who
wanted to solve a problem with eval:

     foo1=x
     foo2=y
     foo3=z
     for i in 1 2 3 ; do
             eval echo oo$i    # print value
             eval foo$i=bar       # store value
     done

[0]  http://francesc.hervada.cat/
[1]  http://u-tx.net/
[2]  http://text-engine.de/
[3]  http://text-engine.de/blog.html
[4]  http://rg42.org/wiki/tatort-dl


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