Re: [TCLUG-DEVEL:93] Ptah

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 09:05:37AM -0600, George Swan wrote:
> Eric,  I successully ignored your mention of Illmarinen the first time.
> 
> At 11:00 PM 2/16/00 -0600, you wrote:
> >	Illmarinen was considered because in the Finnish epic
> >'Kalevala', he occupied a similar, though much less important role.  He
> >was known as 'the smith', and made many interesting things.  Illmarinen
> >is somewhat less pretentious and a little more obscure, but much harder
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>       well not to me or you ..... (or Linus T., while we're at
>       it... :-)

	Well, that's the reason I gave it serious consideration, despite
the fact that typing 'illmarinen <progname>' isn't something people
would really want to do all the time.  :-)

>                .... Tell us more! :-)

	*grin* I'm not sure what more to tell.  :-) I guess my main
reason I want to do this is to make a build system that will do a good
job of building my StreamModule library.  :-)

	Actually, a secondary goal is to make it easy for an automated
graphical tool to parse and/or generate Ptahnames files.  After having
used some of the Windows IDEs, I disdain them to an extent, but I can
see how a lot of people might like them a lot.

Have fun (if at all possible),
-- 
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Some think it is the voice of God.  Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet
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-- Eric Hopper (hopper@omnifarious.mn.org  http://omnifarious.mn.org/~hopper) --

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