Comments on: MRE3 Reviewed on Slashdot http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-14/246 Not a photo blog, but sometimes I play one on TV Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:57:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: Simon P. Chappell http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-14/246#comment-2458 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:07:52 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-14/246#comment-2458 And how does one define Landscape Photographer? One who photographs landscapes. And if anyone has ever bought one of your pictures, then you are a professional photographer. Easy! And, as Ken Rockwell (<a href='http://kenrockwell.com/' rel="nofollow">http://kenrockwell.com/</a>) says: take lots of photographs and never show anyone the bad ones. That's what I do! :-) I have the first phase of my photography site up and available for viewing now. Check out http://simonpeter.com/. You'll also see that I made wallpapers of all my stock pictures after being inspired by your Simple Japanese Garden picture (which I have set as my wallpaper on my work computer now. :-) Simon And how does one define Landscape Photographer? One who photographs landscapes. And if anyone has ever bought one of your pictures, then you are a professional photographer. Easy!

And, as Ken Rockwell (http://kenrockwell.com/) says: take lots of photographs and never show anyone the bad ones. That’s what I do! :-)

I have the first phase of my photography site up and available for viewing now. Check out http://simonpeter.com/. You’ll also see that I made wallpapers of all my stock pictures after being inspired by your Simple Japanese Garden picture (which I have set as my wallpaper on my work computer now. :-)

Simon

]]> by: Jeffrey Friedl http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-14/246#comment-2455 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:03:20 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-14/246#comment-2455 A note about the previous commenter: Hiroshi Iwatani is himself an author of several <a href='http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/4774124613/' rel="nofollow">books on Java</a>, and a Japanese translator of <a href='http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/249-9949128-9488300?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books-jp&field-author=%E5%B2%A9%E8%B0%B7%20%E5%AE%8F' rel="nofollow"> various English-langauge comp-sci books</a>. Judging by the <a href='http://homepage1.nifty.com/algafield/jpr.html' rel="nofollow">home page for his latest book</a>, he's a very conscientious author with extras and a detailed errata. Hiroshi, I appreciate your comments. I can also understand why <span class='nobr'>正規表現</span> (<i>seiki hyougen</i> -- "regular expressions") feels awkward.... it's because the first part, 正規 ("regular"), has the same pronucuation as <a href="http://dict.regex.info/cgi-bin/j-e/jis/dosearch?sDict=on&H=PS&L=J&T=%1B%24B%40-4o%1B%28B&WC=none" rel="nofollow">性器</a> (non-Japanese can follow the link to see its meaning :-) ) Jeffrey A note about the previous commenter: Hiroshi Iwatani is himself an author of several books on Java, and a Japanese translator of
various English-langauge comp-sci books. Judging by the home page for his latest book, he’s a very conscientious author with extras and a detailed errata.

Hiroshi, I appreciate your comments. I can also understand why 正規表現 (seiki hyougen — “regular expressions”) feels awkward…. it’s because the first part, 正規 (”regular”), has the same pronucuation as 性器 (non-Japanese can follow the link to see its meaning :-) )

Jeffrey

]]> by: Hiroshi Iwatani http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-14/246#comment-2453 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:57:50 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-14/246#comment-2453 > some extensions, especially those found in perl, push the regular > expression into Context-free or Context-sensitive territory Although I don't believe that and I used to be an all-out hater of Perl, the language-of-the-worst-readability, I envy Perl regexp only in that you can use group match, written as $n in Java regexp, in other expressions freely. Oh, however, if one wasn't a professional Perl programmer for a long time, he/she could never write MRE or its equivalent. FYR, I was quite a feeble regexp user via tools like sed, awk and vim while he was writing Yahoo Finance CGIs. My real earnest regexp prgramming just begun with the advent of java.util.regexp. And of course MRE helped me a lot in that regexp baptism. I'd like to continue reading this blog as a valuable extension of the learning. BTW, I used to feel the Japanese translation of the term regular expression, 'seiki hyogen', as awkward and weird at best. But sadly, I do not have better alternative(s). > some extensions, especially those found in perl, push the regular
> expression into Context-free or Context-sensitive territory

Although I don’t believe that and I used to be an all-out hater of Perl, the language-of-the-worst-readability, I envy Perl regexp only in that you can use group match, written as $n in Java regexp, in other expressions freely.

Oh, however, if one wasn’t a professional Perl programmer for a long time, he/she could never write MRE or its equivalent. FYR, I was quite a feeble regexp user via tools like sed, awk and vim while he was writing Yahoo Finance CGIs. My real earnest regexp prgramming just begun with the advent of java.util.regexp. And of course MRE helped me a lot in that regexp baptism. I’d like to continue reading this blog as a valuable extension of the learning.

BTW, I used to feel the Japanese translation of the term regular expression, ’seiki hyogen’, as awkward and weird at best. But sadly, I do not have better alternative(s).

]]> by: Jeffrey Friedl http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-14/246#comment-2452 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:50:30 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-14/246#comment-2452 Hahahah, I'm not a "landscape photographer" -- I take a carpet-bombing approach to photography: take a <i>lot</i> of pictures, and cross fingers :-) In any case, thanks indeed for the kind review(!) Jeffrey Hahahah, I’m not a “landscape photographer” — I take a carpet-bombing approach to photography: take a lot of pictures, and cross fingers :-)

In any case, thanks indeed for the kind review(!)

Jeffrey

]]> by: Simon P. Chappell http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-14/246#comment-2451 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:15:25 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-14/246#comment-2451 Speaking as the reviewer, I assure you that your book earned that 11 out of 10. There was no being generous; that's not my style. :-) And thanks for your explanation of your image framing. After I left my initial comment on your site asking about it, I did some experimenting of my own and it's interesting to see some of the similarities and differences between how we did it. I love your landscape pictures. As a landscape photographer myself (the mid-West of America), it's lovely to see someone elses view of a different land. Simon Speaking as the reviewer, I assure you that your book earned that 11 out of 10. There was no being generous; that’s not my style. :-)

And thanks for your explanation of your image framing. After I left my initial comment on your site asking about it, I did some experimenting of my own and it’s interesting to see some of the similarities and differences between how we did it. I love your landscape pictures. As a landscape photographer myself (the mid-West of America), it’s lovely to see someone elses view of a different land.

Simon

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