<Dybbuk>
So Ukranian is a dialect of Russian, or a whole different language?
<Yurik>
it is just another slavic language
<Yurik>
it has a lot of common with Russian
<Yurik>
but with another slavic ones too
<Yurik>
(Bielorussian, Slovak, Polska, Czezh and so on)
<Dybbuk>
Cool. I don't even know little bits of any slavic languages.
<Yurik>
they are quite complex for english speaking people
<Yurik>
(as I heard from 'em)
<Yurik>
may be you've heard 'perestroika' :-)
<Yurik>
about 1985-89 :)
<Dybbuk>
Oh yeah, I've heard that word. :)
<Yurik>
it means something like 'rebuilding'
<Dybbuk>
Wasn't that Gorbachev's favorite word?
<Yurik>
yeah
<Dybbuk>
Did it work?
<Yurik>
also 'demokratija' and 'glasnost'
<Yurik>
:)
<Yurik>
welll...
<Yurik>
after Gorbachev USSR was broken
<Yurik>
and here we're :)
<Yurik>
Ukraine tends to be a democratic country
<Dybbuk>
So do people seem to be enjoying democracy, or do they miss the old way?
<Yurik>
well, current situation is much better than USSR's communism
<Yurik>
not ideally good, absolutely not
<Yurik>
there a lot of problems to build a new country with another model
<Yurik>
but at least we're trying to make our country better
<Yurik>
and...
<Yurik>
old people want to leave in an old way
<Yurik>
(people with age more than 60 years usually)
<Yurik>
the rest mostly want to not to live an old way
<Dybbuk>
So is it improving, you think?
<Yurik>
i think yes
<Yurik>
at least hope that it is improving
<Yurik>
:)
* Yurik
got a last portion of cognac and is out for 5 minutes to smoke a bit
* Yurik
is back
<Dybbuk>
I am so sick of C.
<Yurik>
C sucks
<Dybbuk>
I'm working on this template parser for HTML files that runs Perl subroutines for various keywords...it's so messy.
<Dybbuk>
Perl sucks, too.
<Yurik>
Perl sucks *A LOT*
<Dybbuk>
Heh, I wrote the parser originally in Perl. It was so slow I laughed at it.
<Yurik>
OCaml really kicks ass
<Dybbuk>
OCaml does really kick some serious ass.
<Yurik>
:)
* Yurik
thinks. Friday. Drinkday.
<Dybbuk>
Hahah. Not at work it isn't. :)
<Yurik>
my work day is finished already
<Dybbuk>
Do you get to write Ocaml for a living?
<Yurik>
not yet
<Dybbuk>
Me neither. At least, not when my boss is looking. :)
<Yurik>
i only got Erlang for one commercial project for server
<Yurik>
OCaml is for my open source project
<Yurik>
Hopefully, it will be invested some time
<Dybbuk>
I showed him some Ocaml code yesterday...I reimplemented part of our thousand-line search engine in 80 lines of Ocaml. He was pretty happy about that.
<Yurik>
heh
<Dybbuk>
Our search engine right now consists of a bunch of Perl code which constructs the ugliest SQL query in the known universe.
<Yurik>
mmm
<Dybbuk>
Which isn't very fast.
<Yurik>
i dislike RDBMS for most of tasks
<Dybbuk>
Oracle hates it. :)
* Yurik
is out for a bit
* Yurik
is back
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<Miwong>
hello
<Yurik>
Miwong: hi
<Dybbuk>
Ok...what about random numbers in Ocaml?
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<Dybbuk>
Is there an easy way to generate an .mli file, or does one have to do it by hand?
<Yurik>
by hand
<Yurik>
usually
<Dybbuk>
ocamlopt -i can do part of the work for you, too.
<Dybbuk>
I just discovered that. :)
<Dybbuk>
Ok, so the stream stuff, like [< '1; '2 >], needs camlp4, right?
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