{"id":25,"date":"2001-12-21T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2001-12-21T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/waiting_to_compile"},"modified":"2001-12-21T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2001-12-21T20:00:43","slug":"waiting_to_compile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2001\/12\/waiting_to_compile.html","title":{"rendered":"Waiting to Compile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nMom informs me that her excellent computer-repair instincts had nothing to do with<br \/>\nher education in biology or her experience in analyzing medical literature.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nMy model for my suggestion for your computer was starting a baby on<br \/>\nsolid food. You start with one food at a time, wait a few days, and then add<br \/>\nanother, and then another. That way, if something causes an allergy, you know<br \/>\nwhat it is. Simple really.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nToday at work I was <em>really<\/em> bored, so I tried downloading and installing<br \/>\nthe <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.null.org\/dadaengine\/\" title=\"neato software\">Dada Engine<\/a>.  This wonderful<br \/>\nsoftware generates random text from a &#8220;grammar&#8221;, which is just a text file consisting<br \/>\nof rules.  There are a number of fun examples of the Dada Engine in action,<br \/>\nincluding the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/cgi-bin\/postmodern\/\" title=\"random Postmodern article generator\">Postmodernism<br \/>\nGenerator<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elsewhere.org\/hbzpoetry\/\" title=\"frighteningly accurate\">Random Adolescent<br \/>\nPoetry Generator<\/a>.  I was really looking forward to inventing my own scripts.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUnfortunately, I couldn&#8217;t compile the software at work.  It requires GNU <CODE>make<\/CODE>,<br \/>\nand at work we use Solaris (duh).  I should have known this would happen&#8230; I had the<br \/>\nsame trouble with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apache.org\/\" title=\"open source webserver\">Apache<\/a> webserver last year.  Now,<br \/>\neven a dumb tech writer like me can install <CODE>gcc<\/CODE> and GNU <CODE>make<\/CODE> eventually,<br \/>\nbut my knowledge of C is so weak&#8230; I&#8217;d rather not spend hours and hours trying to graft GNU-stuff<br \/>\nonto Solaris.  I managed to do it once before, but it was singularly unpleasant.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMaybe some bright enterprising young person should rewrite the Dada Engine in Java.<br \/>\nJust as an exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My model for my suggestion for your computer was starting a baby on solid food. You start with one food at a time, wait a few days, and then add another, and then another. That way, if something causes an allergy, you know what it is. Simple really.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}